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NASA Formal Methods

8th International Symposium, NFM 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 7-9, 2016, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 9690)

Part of the book sub series: Programming and Software Engineering (LNPSE)

Conference series link(s): NFM: NASA Formal Methods Symposium

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Table of contents (29 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
  2. Requirements and Architectures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Temporal Logic Framework for Performance Analysis of Architectures of Systems

      • Ariane Piel, Jean Bourrely, Stéphanie Lala, Sylvain Bertrand, Romain Kervarc
      Pages 3-18
    3. On Implementing Real-Time Specification Patterns Using Observers

      • John D. Backes, Michael W. Whalen, Andrew Gacek, John Komp
      Pages 19-33
    4. Contract-Based Verification of Complex Time-Dependent Behaviors in Avionic Systems

      • Devesh Bhatt, Arunabh Chattopadhyay, Wenchao Li, David Oglesby, Sam Owre, Natarajan Shankar
      Pages 34-40Open Access
    5. ARSENAL: Automatic Requirements Specification Extraction from Natural Language

      • Shalini Ghosh, Daniel Elenius, Wenchao Li, Patrick Lincoln, Natarajan Shankar, Wilfried Steiner
      Pages 41-46
  3. Testing and Run-Time Enforcement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
    2. Assisted Coverage Closure

      • Adam Nellis, Pascal Kesseli, Philippa Ryan Conmy, Daniel Kroening, Peter Schrammel, Michael Tautschnig
      Pages 49-64
    3. Compositional Runtime Enforcement

      • Srinivas Pinisetty, Stavros Tripakis
      Pages 82-99
    4. Improving an Industrial Test Generation Tool Using SMT Solver

      • Hao Ren, Devesh Bhatt, Jan Hvozdovic
      Pages 100-106Open Access
  4. Code Generation and Synthesis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
    2. Obfuscator Synthesis for Privacy and Utility

      • Yi-Chin Wu, Vasumathi Raman, Stéphane Lafortune, Sanjit A. Seshia
      Pages 133-149
    3. Code Generation Using a Formal Model of Reference Counting

      • Gaspard Férey, Natarajan Shankar
      Pages 150-165
    4. EventB2Java: A Code Generator for Event-B

      • Néstor Cataño, Víctor Rivera
      Pages 166-171
  5. Applications of Formal Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
    2. A Formally Verified Checker of the Safe Distance Traffic Rules for Autonomous Vehicles

      • Albert Rizaldi, Fabian Immler, Matthias Althoff
      Pages 175-190
    3. Probabilistic Formal Verification of the SATS Concept of Operation

      • Muhammad Usama Sardar, Nida Afaq, Khaza Anuarul Hoque, Taylor T. Johnson, Osman Hasan
      Pages 191-205

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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2016, held in Minneapolis, MN, USA, in June 2016.
The 19 full and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: requirements and architectures; testing and run-time enforcement; theorem proving and proofs; application of formal methods; code generation and synthesis; model checking and verification; and correctness and certification. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Sanjai Rayadurgam

  • NASA Ames Research Center , Moffett Field, USA

    Oksana Tkachuk

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