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Promotion of Formal Approaches in Japanese Software Industry and a Best Practice of FeliCa’s Case (Extended Abstract)

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Formal Methods and Software Engineering (ICFEM 2016)

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We have been making much effort to promote formal methods in Japan, especially Japanese IT companies. This paper describes our activities in Japan for almost twenty years, and shows typical reactions from such Japanese companies for application of formal methods. We mention about the obstacles they think to adopting formal methods in their real software development projects. On the other hand we also present a case of FeliCa Networks, Inc. as a best practice of applying formal methods in Japan. We discuss the lessons learned from our efforts of promoting formal methods and the FeliCa’s case. Finally, we briefly introduce our research project to support software developers in adopting formal approaches to real projects.

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This work is partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) 2422001.

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  1. Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan

    Keijiro Araki

  2. Sony Corporation, 2-10-1 Osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-8610, Japan

    Taro Kurita

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  1. School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Nomi, Japan

    Kazuhiro Ogata

  2. Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Mark Lawford

  3. Department of Computer Science, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Shaoying Liu

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Araki, K., Kurita, T. (2016). Promotion of Formal Approaches in Japanese Software Industry and a Best Practice of FeliCa’s Case (Extended Abstract). In: Ogata, K., Lawford, M., Liu, S. (eds) Formal Methods and Software Engineering. ICFEM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10009. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47846-3_2

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