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FDR: From Theory to Industrial Application

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FDR is the most well-known verification tool for CSP. Since its early beginnings in 1980s, it has developed into one of the world’s fastest model checking tools. Over the years, FDR has made a significant impact across academic subject areas, most notably in cyber-security, as well as across industrial domains, such as high-tech manufacturing, telecommunications, aerospace, and defence. In honour of Bill Roscoe’s 60th birthday, this paper provides a brief history of FDR, together with a collection of notable examples of FDR’s practical impact in these areas.

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    There were actually several major versions of FDR2 released: FDR 2.83 represented the final version that Formal Systems produced, whilst FDR 2.94 was a significant new release of FDR2 that incorporated, amongst numerous other enhancements, support for several new denotational models.

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    UI Automator — https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/testing-support-library/index.html#UIAutomator.

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    Z3—http://z3.codeplex.com/.

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We are hugely grateful to Michael Goldsmith for his expert memory recalling the early days of FDR.

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    Thomas Gibson-Robinson, Guy Broadfoot, Philippa Hopcroft, Gavin Lowe & Colin O’Halloran

  2. Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

    Gustavo Carvalho, Sidney Nogueira & Augusto Sampaio

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Gibson-Robinson, T. et al. (2017). FDR: From Theory to Industrial Application. In: Gibson-Robinson, T., Hopcroft, P., Lazić, R. (eds) Concurrency, Security, and Puzzles. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10160. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51046-0_4

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