We propose a short bibliographic survey of calculi for mobile processes. Contrasting with other similar exercises, we consider two related, but distinct, notions of mobile processes, namely labile processes, which can exhibit dynamic changes in their ...

The annotated bibliography highlights work in the area of algorithmic test generation from formal specifications with guaranteed fault coverage, i.e., fault model-driven test derivation. A fault model is understood as a triple, comprising a finite state ...

Labelled transition system based test theory has made remarkable progress over the past 15 years. From a theoretically interesting approach to the semantics of reactive systems it has developed into a field where testing theory is (slowly) narrowing the ...

Our goal in this paper is not to enrich the literature with yet another defence of formal methods, but rather to build on our experience of using and studying formal methods in security to provide an industrial point of view, with a strong emphasis on ...

Formal methods have a great potential of application in the development of industrial critical systems. In certain application fields, formal methods are even becoming part of standards. Among formal methods, Model Checking is proving particularly ...

The paper presents ongoing work aiming at understanding the nature of specifications given by High Level Message Sequence Charts and the ways in which they can be put into effective use. Contrarily to some authors, we do not set finite state ...

UPPAAL is a tool for modeling, simulation and verification of real-time systems, developed jointly by BRICS at Aalborg University and the Department of Computer Systems at Uppsala University. The tool is appropriate for systems that can be modeled as a ...

The challenges in using theorem proving for verification of parallel systems are to achieve adequate automation, and to allow human guidance to be expressed in terms of the system under examination rather than the mechanisms of the prover. This paper ...

We survey principles of model checking techniques for the automatic analysis of reactive systems. The use of model checking is exemplified by an analysis of the Needham-Schroeder public key protocol. We then formally define transition systems, temporal ...