RoboChart: modelling and verification of the functional behaviour of robotic applications

A Miyazawa, P Ribeiro, W Li, A Cavalcanti… - Software & Systems …, 2019 - Springer
Robots are becoming ubiquitous: from vacuum cleaners to driverless cars, there is a wide
variety of applications, many with potential safety hazards. The work presented in this paper …

Robostar technology: A roboticist's toolbox for combined proof, simulation, and testing

A Cavalcanti, W Barnett, J Baxter, G Carvalho… - Software Engineering for …, 2021 - Springer
Simulation is favored by roboticists to evaluate controller design and software. Often, state
machines are drawn to convey overall ideas and used as a basis to program tool-specific …

Design of formal languages and interfaces:“formal” does not mean “unreadable”

M Spichkova - Emerging Research and Trends in Interactivity and the …, 2014 - igi-global.com
This chapter provides an introduction to a work that aims to apply the achievements of
engineering psychology to the area of formal methods, focusing on the specification phase …

Human factors of formal methods

M Spichkova - arxiv preprint arxiv:1404.7247, 2014 - arxiv.org
HUMAN FACTORS OF FORMAL METHODS Page 1 HUMAN FACTORS OF FORMAL
METHODS Maria Spichkova Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München …

Human factors in software reliability engineering

M Spichkova, H Liu, M Laali, HW Schmidt - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
arxiv:1503.03584v1 [cs.SE] 12 Mar 2015 Page 1 Human Factors in Software Reliability
Engineering Maria Spichkova, Huai Liu, Mohsen Laali, and Heinz W. Schmidt Australia-India …

Do we really need to write documentation for a system? CASE tool add-ons: generator+ editor for a precise documentation

M Spichkova, X Zhu, D Mou - arxiv preprint arxiv:1404.7265, 2014 - arxiv.org
One of the common problems of system development projects is that the system
documentation is often outdated and does not describe the latest version of the system. The …

Teaching of formal methods for software engineering

M Spichkova, A Zamansky - Special Session on Collaborative …, 2016 - scitepress.org
The use of Formal Methods (FMs) offers rigour and precision, while reducing ambiguity and
inconsistency. The major barriers hindering the adoption of FMs in industry are the problems …

Formal model for intelligent route planning

M Spichkova, M Simic, H Schmidt - Procedia Computer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents an approach towards intelligent route planning in public transport
systems. The approach focuses on formal modelling of the semi-dynamic intelligent route …

Towards classification of lightweight formal methods

A Zamansky, M Spichkova, G Rodriguez-Navas… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
The use of lightweight formal methods (LFM) for the development of industrial applications
has become a major trend. Although the term" lightweight formal methods" has been used …

Towards a human-centred approach in modelling and testing of cyber-physical systems

M Spichkova, A Zamansky… - 2015 IEEE 21st …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to capture different levels of abstraction in a system model is especially important
for remote integration, testing/verification, and manufacturing of cyber-physical systems …