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Formal Methods as an Improvement Tool

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This chapter describes the work of AeS in the context of the DEPLOY Associate program. It outlines the progress of the pilot project, the development of a specification of a simple railway system called “dead man control”. In addition to this, we also present some parallel developments, some of them theoretical and others practical, in the use of formal methods in industry, focusing on such important points as requirements validation, productivity and dependability.

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Russo, A.G. (2013). Formal Methods as an Improvement Tool. In: Romanovsky, A., Thomas, M. (eds) Industrial Deployment of System Engineering Methods. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33170-1_7

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