In computer science, formal methods are mathematically rigorous techniques for the specification, development, analysis, and verification of software and...

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...

theoretical and empirical methods, the formal sciences use language tools concerned with characterizing abstract structures described by formal systems and the...

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...

product design. Formal specifications are one such way to achieve this in software engineering reliability as once predicted. Other methods such as testing...

A formal system is an abstract structure and formalization of an axiomatic system used for deducing, using rules of inference, theorems from axioms. In...

Formal linguistics is the branch of linguistics which uses applied mathematical methods for the analysis of natural languages. Such methods include formal...

compiler using formal methods and using rigorous testing (often called compiler validation) on an existing compiler. Two main formal verification approaches...

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...

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...

Formal Methods Europe (FME) is an organization whose aim is to encourage the research and application of formal methods for the improvement of software...

Formal equivalence checking process is a part of electronic design automation (EDA), commonly used during the development of digital integrated circuits...

variations in formal semantic systems arise from the choice of supporting mathematical formalism.[citation needed] Some variations of formal semantics include...

calculus Formal methods, mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems Formal specification...

There are various methods for knowledge protection and those methods are often divided into two categories by their formality: formal protection and informal...

over-approximating a rigorous model, formal methods approach to static analysis (e.g., using static program assertions). Sound methods contain no false negatives...

Formal epistemology uses formal methods from decision theory, logic, probability theory and computability theory to model and reason about issues of epistemological...

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...

A formal grammar is a set of symbols and the production rules for rewriting some of them into every possible string of a formal language over an alphabet...

Chartered Institute for IT). The journal is closely associated with Formal Methods Europe. A comment from Christopher Strachey inspired the journal: "Much...

algorithms and data structures. He is recognisable around campus for his more formal attire compared to the department's normally casual dress code.[citation...

Quantum computing Software engineering Formal methods (Formal verification) Theory of computation Automata theory (Formal languages) Computability theory Computational...

Huisman, M. (2002). Formal Specification and Static Checking of Gemplus' Electronic Purse Using ESC/Java. FME 2002:Formal Methods—Getting IT Right. Lecture...

sentence in a formal proof is called a theorem of the formal system. The notion of theorem is generally effective, but there may be no method by which we...

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...

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...

and programs that can be deductively reasoned through mathematical formal methods. Computer scientists Edsger W. Dijkstra and Tony Hoare regard instructions...

The Vienna Development Method (VDM) is one of the longest-established formal methods for the development of computer-based systems. Originating in work...

program to establish the consistency of mathematics through purely formal methods. The early mathematical formalists attempted "to block, avoid, or sidestep...

Software Engineering Conferences on formal methods in software engineering, including formal specification, formal verification, and static code analysis:...