Switching from document-centric engineering to Model Based Systems Engineering
(MBSE), Systems Engineering (SE) has significantly evolved in terms of standard practices …

Both logic programming in general and Prolog in particular have a long and fascinating
history, intermingled with that of many disciplines they inherited from or catalyzed. A large …

Formal methods encompass a wide choice of techniques and tools for the specification,
development, analysis, and verification of software and hardware systems. Formal methods …

The B-Method has an interesting history, where language and tools have evolved over the
years. This not only led to considerable research and progress in the area of formal …

The goal of this chapter is to give an overview of the different approaches and tools
pertaining to formal methods. We do not attempt to be exhaustive, but focus instead on the …

A key risk with autonomous systems (AS) is the trustworthiness of the decision-making and
control mechanisms that replace human control. To be trustworthy, systems need to remain …

TLA+ is a language for formal specification of all kinds of computer systems. System
designers use this language to specify concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant protocols …

The correct-by-construction state-based Event-B formal method lacks the ability to express
liveness properties using temporal logic. To address this challenge, two approaches can be …

Integrity constraints play a key role in the specification and development of software systems
since they state conditions that must always be satisfied by the system at runtime. Therefore …

ProB provides a constraint solver for the B-method written in Prolog and can make use of
different backends based on SAT and SMT solving. One such backend translates B and …