• In computer science, formal methods are mathematically rigorous techniques for the specification, development, analysis, and verification of software and...
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  • using formal methods of mathematics. Formal verification is a key incentive for formal specification of systems, and is at the core of formal methods. It...
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  • theoretical and empirical methods, the formal sciences use language tools concerned with characterizing abstract structures described by formal systems and the...
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    and linguistics, a formal language is a set of strings whose symbols are taken from a set called "alphabet". The alphabet of a formal language consists...
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  • product design. Formal specifications are one such way to achieve this in software engineering reliability as once predicted. Other methods such as testing...
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  • A formal system is the use of an axiomatic system utilized for deductive reasoning (or alternatively an inductive system) or an abstract structure whose...
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  • developing the compiler using formal methods and using rigorous testing (often called compiler validation) on an existing compiler. Formal verification of compiler...
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  • over-approximating a rigorous model, formal methods approach to static analysis (e.g., using static program assertions). Sound methods contain no false negatives...
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  • calculus Formal methods, mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems Formal specification...
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  • The B method is a method of software development based on B, a tool-supported formal method based on an abstract machine notation, used in the development...
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  • Formal Methods Europe (FME) is an organization whose aim is to encourage the research and application of formal methods for the improvement of software...
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  • vary from highlighting possible coding errors (e.g., the lint tool) to formal methods that mathematically prove properties about a given program (e.g., its...
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  • at its syntactic rather than semantic level. Syntactic methods are often used when formal methods are not an option, and are often a simpler and, more importantly...
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  • variations in formal semantic systems arise from the choice of supporting mathematical formalism.[citation needed] Some variations of formal semantics include...
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  • Formal equivalence checking process is a part of electronic design automation (EDA), commonly used during the development of digital integrated circuits...
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    specific support for a variety of formal methods. It can be seen as an integrated development environment (IDE) for formal methods. In recent years, a substantial...
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    Computer science (category Formal sciences)
    and programs that can be deductively reasoned through mathematical formal methods. Computer scientists Edsger W. Dijkstra and Tony Hoare regard instructions...
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    There are various methods for knowledge protection and those methods are often divided into two categories by their formality: formal protection and informal...
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  • The Vienna Development Method (VDM) is one of the longest-established formal methods for the development of computer-based systems. Originating in work...
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    Quantum computing Software engineering Formal methods (Formal verification) Theory of computation Automata theory (Formal languages) Computability theory Computational...
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  • Predicative programming (category Formal methods)
    Predicative programming is the original name of a formal method for program specification and refinement, more recently called a Practical Theory of Programming...
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    Production Cell: Software Development Case Study, ASM model Railcrossing: Formal Methods for Real-Time Computing, ASM model Light Control: Requirements Engineering...
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    Education (redirect from Formal education)
    character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education also...
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    TLA+ (category Formal methods)
    TLA+ is a formal specification language developed by Leslie Lamport. It is used for designing, modelling, documentation, and verification of programs,...
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    Huisman, M. (2002). Formal Specification and Static Checking of Gemplus' Electronic Purse Using ESC/Java. FME 2002:Formal Methods—Getting IT Right. Lecture...
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  • replacing some or all software testing activities with model simulation or formal methods. The release of DO-178C and the companion documents DO-278A (Ground...
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  • High- and low-level (category Formal methods)
    instructions. In formal methods, a high-level formal specification can be related to a low-level executable implementation (e.g., formally by mathematical...
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  • Software verification and validation (category Formal methods)
    requirements for both as well as formal procedures or protocols for determining compliance. Ideally, formal methods provide a mathematical guarantee that...
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  • Terminal yield (category Formal methods stubs)
    In formal language theory, the terminal yield (or fringe) of a tree is the sequence of leaves encountered in an ordered walk of the tree. Parse trees and/or...
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  • Axiomatic semantics (category Formal methods stubs)
    language Operational semantics — in terms of the state of the computation Formal semantics of programming languages — overview Predicate transformer semantics...
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