In this paper we introduce “clipping,” a new method of syntactic approximation which is motivated by and works in conjunction with a sound and decidable denotational model for...
Several dynamical systems, such as deterministic automata and labelled transition systems, can be described as coalgebras of so-called Kripke polynomial functors, built up from co...
Marcello M. Bonsangue, Jan J. M. M. Rutten, Alexan...
This paper presents a new lower bound for the discrete strategy improvement algorithm for solving parity games due to V¨oge and Jurdzi´nski. First, we informally show which stru...
VCC is an industrial-strength verification environment for low-level concurrent system code written in C. VCC takes a program (annotated with function contracts, state assertions,...
Ernie Cohen, Markus Dahlweid, Mark A. Hillebrand, ...
Abstract. Teaching formal methods is a challenging task for several reasons. First, both the state-of-the-art knowledge and the tools are rapidly evolving. Second, there are no com...