Formal Development and Verification of a Distributed Railway Control System
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Validation of a Railway Interlocking Model
FME '94 Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe on Industrial Benefit of Formal Methods
Modeling in Event-B: System and Software Engineering
Modeling in Event-B: System and Software Engineering
Rodin: an open toolset for modelling and reasoning in Event-B
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) - Special Section on VSTTE 2008
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Event-B is a formal method that allows one to develop various kinds of systems including discrete control systems. However, it is lacking a systematic approach for developing this type of systems and it hinders the applicability of Event-B. Our contribution is such an approach and it is presented in this paper. Our proposed method focuses on a set of elements that should be captured by the formal model and prescribes an order in which they should be introduced. The key aspect of our approach is to first model the required behaviour of the environment, and then to introduce the controller to appropriately influence the environment. It has the advantage that every step of such a development is dictated by the information available so far, including the requirements. We argue that having a clear development strategy early in the design process will assist the developers in producing high-quality models of the future software systems.