Statecharts: A visual formalism for complex systems
Science of Computer Programming
Introduction to the ISO specification language LOTOS
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems - Special Issue: Protocol Specification and Testing
STATEMATE: A Working Environment for the Development of Complex Reactive Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Design and validation of computer protocols
Design and validation of computer protocols
Interleaving set temporal logic
Theoretical Computer Science
The temporal logic of reactive and concurrent systems
The temporal logic of reactive and concurrent systems
An introduction to formal specification and Z
An introduction to formal specification and Z
Symbolic model checking: 1020 states and beyond
Information and Computation - Special issue: Selections from 1990 IEEE symposium on logic in computer science
Model checking and modular verification
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Computer-aided verification of coordinating processes: the automata-theoretic approach
Computer-aided verification of coordinating processes: the automata-theoretic approach
Formal Verification for Fault-Tolerant Architectures: Prolegomena to the Design of PVS
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Better verification through symmetry
Formal Methods in System Design - Special issue on symmetry in automatic verification
Refinement with global equivalence proofs in temporal logic
POMIV '96 Proceedings of the DIMACS workshop on Partial order methods in verification
Elements of distributed algorithms: modeling and analysis with Petri nets
Elements of distributed algorithms: modeling and analysis with Petri nets
Model checking
Symbolic Model Checking
LOTOSphere: Software Development with Lotos
LOTOSphere: Software Development with Lotos
dSPIN: A Dynamic Extension of SPIN
Proceedings of the 5th and 6th International SPIN Workshops on Theoretical and Practical Aspects of SPIN Model Checking
Faithful Translations among Models and Specifications
FME '01 Proceedings of the International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe on Formal Methods for Increasing Software Productivity
CAV '96 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Translations between Textual Transition Systems and Petri Nets
IFM '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods
Using the Bandera Tool Set to Model-Check Properties of Concurrent Java Software
CONCUR '01 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Concurrency Theory
ASE '00 Proceedings of the 15th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
STeP: The Stanford Temporal Prover (Educational Release) User''s Manual
STeP: The Stanford Temporal Prover (Educational Release) User''s Manual
Translations between Textual Transition Systems and Petri Nets
IFM '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods
Formal verification of ASMs using MDGs
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
Interfacing ASM with the MDG tool
ASM'03 Proceedings of the abstract state machines 10th international conference on Advances in theory and practice
Analyzing a formal specification of Mondex using model checking
ICTAC'10 Proceedings of the 7th International colloquium conference on Theoretical aspects of computing
Effective representation of RT-LOTOS terms by finite time petri nets
FORTE'06 Proceedings of the 26th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems
An MDE-based approach to the verification of SysML state machine diagram
Proceedings of the Fourth Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware
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The reasons for translating a description of a model in one notation into another are reviewed. This includes both translating entire models and describing different aspects of a system using different notations.In order to demonstrate the ideas, the VeriTech framework for translation is described. A system being analyzed is seen as a collection of versions, along with a description of how the versions are related. The versions are given in different notations connected through a core notation by compilers from and to the notations of existing tools and specification methods. The reasons that translations cannot always be exact are analyzed, based on experience with over ten separate compiler translations among formal methods notations. Additional information gathered during translation is described, to facilitate optimizations, error tracing, and analysis.The concept is presented of a faithful relation among models and families of properties true of those models. In this framework families of properties are provided with uniform syntactic transformations, in addition to the translations of the models. This framework is shown appropriate for common instances of relations among translations previously treated in an ad hoc way. The classes of properties that can be faithful for a given translation provide a measure of the usefulness of the translation. Open research directions are suggested concerning faithful transformations, additional information, error tracing, and optimizing translations.