Started in February 2008, the DEPLOY project, probably the biggest Formal Method project ever funded by the European Community, is finishing in April 2012. During more than 4 years, 86 researchers and engineers from 14 partners have collaborated to the development, improvement and assessment of the Rodin platform, plugins, and educational materials, while sharing the common objective of easing ...

In this paper, we describe a completely automated framework for iterative abstraction refinement that is fully integrated into a formal-verification environment. This environment consists of three basic software tools: Forecast, a BDD-based model checker, Thunder, a SAT-based bounded model checker, and MCE, a technology for multiple-counterexample analysis. In our framework, the initial abstrac...

In this paper we introduce a novel approach to formal specification of pipelined designs. The approach is based on contract specifications of pipe stages extended by a mechanism of temporal binding. Contract specifications describe the pipeline behavior in the form of preconditions and postconditions of pipe stages, while temporal binding combines specifications of separated stages into a co-op...

The static and dynamic relationships between the system actors and objects, but also the domain and business constraints must be taken into consideration in order to produce a consistent specification. Actual tools mainly support relationships and forget constraints. It is nevertheless necessary to have tools which enable to express and to validate them. In order to enable the validation of con...

Information overload has been suggested as a potential barrier to use of social media by emergency managers, especially for gathering information during disasters. This paper, based on a survey of 477 U.S. county-level emergency managers, examines the relationship of the perception of information overload as a barrier to social media use for gathering information, to the intention to use social...

The Program Development System (PDS) is a collection of programming tools created as an extension of the ECL programming system23. It contains components that assist the progr~r~er in the definition and modular structuring of large programs at different levels of algorithmic abstraction. These components are supplemented by a program analysis package that produces an information pool to be used...

Using automated software tools is essential for successful planning and managing of projects. Many automated software tools have been developed in the industry. The literature on how to select the appropiate project management software tools is quite limited. This paper provides a comparison of a set of project management software tools (PMST). In this study, first, we developed criteria to det...

Received: 24 November 2003 Revised: 30 January 2004 Accepted: 8 March 2004 Abstract We propose a new method for assessing the perceptual organization of information graphics, based on the premise that the visual structure of an image should match the structure of the data it is intended to convey. The core of our method is a new formal model of one type of perceptual structure, based on classic...

This paper presents the framework for well-understood domain analysis as a decisive stage for the successive process of domain-specific software tools building. Specific features of the well-understood domain analysis are fonnulated. Initial model of the tools to be built and the analysis process are described. Analysis is performed with the reusability concept in mind and as a result essential...

Formal specification has been increasingly adopted for the development of software systems of the highest integrity. However, the readability of specifications for large-scale and complex systems can be so poor that even the developers may not easily understand whether their specifications define the ‘‘intended behaviors’’. In this paper, we describe a software tool that supports the animation ...