Formal methods in railways: a systematic map** study

A Ferrari, MHT Beek - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Formal methods are mathematically based techniques for the rigorous development of
software-intensive systems. The railway signaling domain is a field in which formal methods …

Reliability of safety‐critical systems: A state‐of‐the‐art review

A Maurya, D Kumar - Quality and Reliability Engineering …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Safety‐critical systems are designed to prevent catastrophic consequences from failure,
such as injury or death to humans and environmental damage. These must be carefully …

Design and evaluation of a mobile application to assist the self-monitoring of the chronic kidney disease in develo** countries

A Sobrinho, LD da Silva, A Perkusich… - BMC medical informatics …, 2018 - Springer
Background The chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a worldwide critical problem, especially in
develo** countries. CKD patients usually begin their treatment in advanced stages, which …

Formal modeling of biomedical signal acquisition systems: source of evidence for certification

A Sobrinho, LD da Silva, A Perkusich, P Cunha… - Software & Systems …, 2019 - Springer
Biomedical signal acquisition systems are software-intensive medical systems composed of
processors, transducers, amplifiers, filters, and converters. We present in this article a formal …

Simplifying the formal verification of safety requirements in zone controllers through problem frames and constraint-based projection

Z Yuan, X Chen, J Liu, Y Yu, H Sun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Formal methods have been applied widely to verifying the safety requirements of
communication-based train control (CBTC) systems, while the problem situations could be …

The refinement of Petri net with inhibitor arcs based representation for embedded systems

C **a, Z Wang, Z Wang - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Embedded systems are widely used in various devices. PRES+ (Petri net-based
Representation for Embedded Systems) has been used to model and analyze embedded …

Evaluating the safety control scheme of railway centralized traffic control (CTC) system with coloured Petri nets

T Zhang, X Li, D Wu, H Wang, J Liu, D Zhang - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) system plays an important role in ensuring safe and
efficient rail transportation operations. It is mainly responsible for the implementation and …

Safety requirement verification of train-centric CBTC by integrating STPA with coloured Petri net

Q Xu, J Lin - International Journal of Industrial and Systems …, 2023 - inderscienceonline.com
Train-centric communication-based train control (TcCBTC) system is characterised by core
functions centralised into on-board facilities with simplified trackside equipment. Coloured …

Modeling, simulation, and evaluation of causal order assurance techniques in causal broadcast algorithms using timed colored petri nets

L NamvariTazehkand, S Pashazadeh - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2025 - Springer
Causal broadcast is one of the fundamental algorithms in distributed systems. These
algorithms use two techniques, Carrying delivered messages (DM) and Carrying meta …

Model checking of variable Petri nets by using the Kripke structure

R Yang, Z Ding, T Guo, M Pan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The properties of dynamic interactions in mobile-interactive systems are still difficult to
analyze because of the complexity of systems. Thus, we have proposed a new Petri net …