The Z notation: a reference manual
The Z notation: a reference manual
Dynamic fault tree models: techniques for analysis of advanced fault tolerant computer systems
Dynamic fault tree models: techniques for analysis of advanced fault tolerant computer systems
Formalizing style to understand descriptions of software architecture
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Formal Specification in Collaborative Design of Critical Software Tools
HASE '98 The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering
Sound methods and effective tools for engineering modeling and analysis
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Software assurance by bounded exhaustive testing
ISSTA '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Software Assurance by Bounded Exhaustive Testing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Formal Fault Tree Analysis of State Transition Systems
QSIC '05 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Quality Software
From DFTs to PEPA: A Model-to-Model Transformation
EPEW '09 Proceedings of the 6th European Performance Engineering Workshop on Computer Performance Engineering
SEA '07 Proceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications
A compositional semantics for dynamic fault trees in terms of interactive Markov chains
ATVA'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Automated technology for verification and analysis
The how and why of interactive Markov chains
FMCO'09 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Formal methods for components and objects
A safety-focused verification using software fault trees
Future Generation Computer Systems
Using deductive cause-consequence analysis (DCCA) with SCADE
SAFECOMP'07 Proceedings of the 26th international conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security
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Computational modeling tools are critical to engineering. In the absence of a sufficiently complete, mathematically precise, abstract specification of the semantics of the modeling framework supported by such a tool, rigorous validation of the framework and of models built using it is impossible; there is no sound basis for program implementation, verification or documentation; the scientific foundation of the framework remains weak; and significant conceptual errors in framework definition and implementation are likely. Yet, such specifications are rarely defined. We present an approach based on the use of formal specification and denotational semantics techniques from software engineering and programming language design. To illustrate the approach, we present elements of a formal semantics for a dynamic fault tree framework that promises to aid reliability analysis. No such specification of the meaning of dynamic fault trees has been defined previously. The approach revealed important shortcomings in the previous, informal definitions of the framework, and thus led to significant improvements, suggesting that formally specifying framework semantics is critical to effective framework design.