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We focus on the integration of Formal Methods as mandatory theme in any Computer Science University curriculum. In particular, when considering the ACM Curriculum for Computer Science, the inclusion of Formal Methods as a mandatory Knowledge Area needs ...

Formal Methods (FMs) radically improve the quality of the code artefacts they help to produce. They are simple, probably accessible to first-year undergraduate students and certainly to second-year students and beyond. Nevertheless, in many cases, they ...

Formal methods encompass a wide choice of techniques and tools for the specification, development, analysis, and verification of software and hardware systems. Formal methods are widely applied in industry, in activities ranging from the elicitation of ...

Ensuring timely coordination between autonomous aircraft is a challenging problem in decentralized air traffic management (ATM) applications for urban air mobility (UAM) scenarios. This paper presents an approach for formally guaranteeing timely ...

This work envisions industrial control systems that can reliably adapt to requirements. We rely on the international standard IEC 61499 to achieve this goal. The standard allows downtimeless system evolution such that an application can be modified at ...

This paper presents a comprehensive approach for planning for teams of heterogeneous robots with different capabilities and the transportation of resources. We use Capability Temporal Logic (CaTL), a formal language that helps express tasks involving ...

We motivate and summarise the track SpecifyThis – Bridging gaps between program specification paradigms, taking place at the International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, ISoLA 2024.

The French Ferromobile project aims at proposing a tailored solution for low traffic railway passenger line, using a modified road minibus on rail tracks. Using classical trains as reference, the current paper proposes a safety strategy which uses ...

In recent years, research on artificial intelligence (AI) has made great progress. AI-tools are getting better in simulating human reasoning and behavior every day. In this paper, we discuss the extent to which AI-tools can support Correctness-by-...

Inspired by Rocco De Nicola and colleagues’ novel approach to the compositional analysis of complex adaptive systems, we foresee an integrated methodology combining those methods with the logical verification techniques offered by modern proof ...

This paper presents a modelling framework for an idealised system of foraging ants using Higher-Order Logic (HOL), which we implemented in the HOL Light proof assistant. Exploiting the expressive capabilities of HOL Light, we create a detailed, ...

The labelling-based approach of abstract argumentation frameworks (AAFs) is beneficial for various applications requiring different levels of decisiveness. For labelling-based semantics, this paper provides an operator so-called reduced meet ...

• The operator ⋂ D called reduced meet modulo an ultrafilter is introduced for labelling-based semantics.
• All fundamental labelling based semantics of AAFs are shown to be closed under the operator ⋂ D.
• Several metatheorems are ...

Simulation-based falsification has proved to be an effective verification method for cyber-physical systems. Traditional approaches to falsification take as input a single or a set of temporal properties that must be satisfied by the system at all ...

Over the last several decades, static and dynamic program analysis techniques have received widespread attention. Their application to mainstream programming languages always requires extending theories and finding practical solutions. This ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of scientific computing, properly supporting the modularity and complexity of modern scientific applications requires new approaches to workflow execution, like seamless interoperability between different workflow ...

Modern embedded software development uses model-based methods to support long-term maintenance, portability, and correctness. A growing trend is to use formal methods to create software models and verify their correctness against requirement ...

Software verification aims to prove that a program satisfies some given properties for all its possible executions. Software evolved incredibly fast during the last century, exposing several challenges to this scientific discipline. The goal of ...

The widespread use of advanced driver assistance systems in modern vehicles, together with their integration with the Internet and other road nodes, has made vehicle more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. To address these risks, the automotive industry ...

NeVer2 is an open-source, cross-platform tool aimed at designing, training, and verifying neural networks. It seamlessly integrates popular learning libraries with our verification backend, offering their functionalities via a graphical interface. ...$$$$

In parallel with the rapid development of Information and Communication technologies and the digitization of information in every aspect of daily life, the enforcement of the GDPR, in May 2018, brought significant changes to the processes that ...