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From ProCoS to Space and Mental Models–A Survey of Combining Formal and Semi-formal Methods

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This contribution reports of work done after the official end of the ProCoS project in 1995. Most of this work was done while the author was affiliated with Bremen University. The aim of this contribution is to show the effect of ProCoS on these projects, which comprises analysis of systems from two different application domains: space and aerospace. In both examples, the basic approach involves abstraction to CSP specifications and model-checking using FDR. Another common factor is the use of other techniques in combination with model-checking.

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Buth, B. (2017). From ProCoS to Space and Mental Models–A Survey of Combining Formal and Semi-formal Methods. In: Hinchey, M., Bowen, J., Olderog, ER. (eds) Provably Correct Systems. NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48628-4_12

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