This paper presents DECOR, a conngurable design ow management component for online monitoring and control of concurrent design processes. In addition , DECOR allows automatic activation of design actions. Since DECOR is tightly integrated into a framework like a usual design tool, its approach is also applicable for other frameworks. DECOR allows to control encapsulated tools as well as tools t...

When dealing with interiour planning tasks one has to consider a broad range of different variants and styles that match dependent on geometrical properties and related constraints. The selection of appropriate components from a large database containing a variety of different product ranges without interfering with a single constraint is a challenging task. Nowadays, there exists a number of s...

This paper describes the main features of several tools concerned with the analysis of either Maude specifications, or of extensions of such specifications: the ITP, MTT, CRC, ChC, and SCC tools, and Real-Time Maude for real-time systems. These tools, together with Maude itself and its searching and model-checking capabilities, constitute Maude’s formal environment.

In this article we present a tool for the formal deenition and application of design patterns that is both process-and reuse-oriented. A formal model for design patterns allows us to unambiguously specify the steps in pattern instantiation. The model is based on Abstract Data Views and divides designs into both objects and views in order to maintain a separation of concerns. This formalism also...

Although the potential users of theorem proving systems are numerous, automated theorem provers are less widely used than they might be in the formal methods community. Many proofs of correctness, of both software and hardware, have been carried out by skilled users, but in an ideal world all programs would be proved correct before use; in practice few software developers other than those engag...

One of the areas with greatest needs having available information at the right moment and with high accuracy is healthcare. Right information at right time saves lives. Healthcare is a vital domain which needs high processing power for high amounts of data. Due to the critical and the special characteristics of these systems, formal methods are used for specification, description and verificati...

CSP, Hoare’s Communicating Sequential Processes, is a formal language for specifying, implementing and reasoning about concurrent processes and their interactions. Existing software tools that deal with CSP directly are largely concerned with assisting formal proofs. This paper presents an alternative use for CSP, namely the compilation of CSP systems to executable code. The main motivation for...