TOOLympics 2019: An overview of competitions in formal methods

E Bartocci, D Beyer, PE Black, G Fedyukovich… - Tools and Algorithms for …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Evaluation of scientific contributions can be done in many different ways. For the
various research communities working on the verification of systems (software, hardware, or …

[책][B] RERS 2019: Combining synthesis with real-world models

M Jasper, M Mues, A Murtovi, M Schlüter, F Howar… - 2019 - Springer
This paper covers the Rigorous Examination of Reactive Systems (RERS) Challenge 2019.
For the first time in the history of RERS, the challenge features industrial tracks where …

The physics of software tools: SWOT analysis and vision

B Steffen - International Journal on Software Tools for Technology …, 2017 - Springer
This paper reviews the seemingly inevitable trend that software tools are no longer just a
means for supporting the design, construction, and analysis of (large-scale) systems, but …

The RERS challenge: towards controllable and scalable benchmark synthesis

F Howar, M Jasper, M Mues, D Schmidt… - International Journal on …, 2021 - Springer
This paper (1) summarizes the history of the RERS challenge for the analysis and
verification of reactive systems, its profile and intentions, its relation to other competitions …

Rers 2018: Ctl, ltl, and reachability

M Jasper, M Mues, M Schlüter, B Steffen… - … Applications of Formal …, 2018 - Springer
This paper is dedicated to the Rigorous Examination of Reactive Systems (RERS)
Challenge 2018. We focus on changes and improvements compared to previous years …

The RERS 2017 challenge and workshop

M Jasper, M Fecke, B Steffen, M Schordan… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
RERS is an annual verification challenge that focuses on LTL and reachability properties of
reactive systems. In 2017, RERS was extended to a one day workshop that in addition to the …

Property-preserving generation of tailored benchmark Petri nets

B Steffen, M Jasper, J Meijer… - 2017 17th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bottleneck of the validation and evaluation of analysis and verification tools for distributed
systems is the shortage of benchmark problems. Specifically designed benchmark problems …

A proposal of an example and experiments repository to foster industrial adoption of formal methods

R Schlick, M Felderer, I Majzik, R Nardone… - … Applications of Formal …, 2018 - Springer
Formal methods (in a broad sense) have been around almost since the beginning of
computer science. Nonetheless, there is a perception in the formal methods community that …

[책][B] Leveraging applications of formal methods, verification and validation

T Margaria, B Steffen - 2008 - Springer
As General and Program Chairs we would like to welcome you to the proceedings of ISoLA
2022, the 11th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods …

Action-based model checking: logic, automata, and reduction

SF Siegel, Y Yan - International Conference on Computer Aided …, 2020 - Springer
Stutter invariant properties play a special role in state-based model checking: they are the
properties that can be checked using partial order reduction (POR), an indispensable …