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A Comparative Study of Formal Methods for Safety Critical Software in Nuclear Power Plant

  • Sedo Sohn;Seong, Poong-Hyun
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.537-548
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    • 2000
  • The requirement of ultra high reliability of the safety critical software can not be demonstrated by testing alone. The specification based on formal method is recommended for safety system software. But there exist various kinds of formal methods, and this variety of formal method is recognized as an obstacle to the wide use of formal method. In this paper six different formal method have been applied to the same part of the functional requirements that is calculation algorithm intensive. The specification results were compared against the criteria that is derived from the characteristics that good software requirements specifications should have and regulatory body recommends to have. The application experience shows that the critical characteristics should be defined first, then appropriate method has to be selected. In our case, the Software Cost Reduction method was recommended for internal condition or calculation algorithm checking, and statechart method is recommended for the external behavioral description.

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Analysis of the Formal Specification Application for Train Control Systems

  • Jo, Hyun-Jeong;Yoon, Yong-Ki;Hwang, Jong-Gyu
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.87-92
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    • 2009
  • Many critical control systems are developed using formal methods. When software applied to such systems is developed, the employment of formal methods in the software requirements specification and verification will provide increased assurance for such applications. Earlier errors of overlooked requirement specification can be detected using the formal specification method. Also, the testing and full verification to examine all reachable states using model checking to undertake formal verification are able to be completed. In this paper, we proposed an eclectic approach to incorporate Z(Zed) formal language and 'Statemate MAGNUM', formal method tools using Statechart. Also we applied the proposed method to train control systems for the formal requirement specification and analyzed the specification results.

THE FORMAL LINEARIZATION METHOD TO MULTISOLITON SOLUTIONS FOR THREE MODEL EQUATIONS OF SHALLOW WATER WAVES

  • Taghizadeh, N.;Mirzazadeh, M.;Paghaleh, A. Samiei
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.381-391
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, the formal linearization method is used to construct multisoliton solutions for three model of shallow water waves equations. The three models are completely integrable. The formal linearization method is an efficient method for obtaining exact multisoliton solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. The method can be applied to nonintegrable equations as well as to integrable ones.

THE MULTISOLITON SOLUTION OF GENERALIZED BURGER'S EQUATION BY THE FORMAL LINEARIZATION METHOD

  • Mirzazadeh, Mohammad;Taghizadeh, Nasir
    • Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.207-214
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    • 2011
  • The formal linearization method is an efficient method for constructing multisoliton solution of some nonlinear partial differential equations. This method can be applied to nonintegrable equations as well as to integrable ones. In this paper, we obtain multisoliton solution of generalization Burger's equation and the (3+1)-dimension Burger's equation and the Boussinesq equation by the formal linearization method.

The Analysis of Formal Methods for Applying to Vital S/W in Train Control Systems (열차제어시스템 바이탈 소프트웨어를 위한 정형기법 적용 방안 분석)

  • Jo, Hyun-Jeong;Hwang, Jong-Gyu;Yoon, Yong-Ki
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.1000-1007
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    • 2007
  • Recently, many critical control systems are developed using formal methods. When software applied to such systems is developed, the employment of formal methods in the software requirements specification and verification will provide increased assurance for such applications. Earlier error of overlooked requirement specification can be detected using formal specification method. Also the testing and full verification to examine all reachable states using model checking to undertake formal verification are able to be completed. In the comparison of other formal specification methods, we choose the Z formal language for applying to the train control system. Using Z is able to realize higher correctness in the requirement specification, and we propose the Statemate of the best solution in formal verification tools for the system modeling and verification. The Statemate makes it possible to prove thoroughly the system execution from the simple graphical modeling of the complicated train control system. Then we can expect that the model-based formal method combining Z with Statemate will be utilized widely for the railway systems due to various strong points.

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A Note on Computing the Crisp Order Context of a Fuzzy Formal Context for Knowledge Reduction

  • Singh, Prem Kumar;Kumar, Ch. Aswani
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.184-204
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    • 2015
  • Fuzzy Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematical tool for the effective representation of imprecise and vague knowledge. However, with a large number of formal concepts from a fuzzy context, the task of knowledge representation becomes complex. Hence, knowledge reduction is an important issue in FCA with a fuzzy setting. The purpose of this current study is to address this issue by proposing a method that computes the corresponding crisp order for the fuzzy relation in a given fuzzy formal context. The obtained formal context using the proposed method provides a fewer number of concepts when compared to original fuzzy context. The resultant lattice structure is a reduced form of its corresponding fuzzy concept lattice and preserves the specialized and generalized concepts, as well as stability. This study also shows a step-by-step demonstration of the proposed method and its application.

Applying Methodology for the Safety-Critical S/W Development of Railway Signaling with the Z and Statechart Formal Method (Z와 Statechart에 의한 열차제어시스템 바일탈 소프트웨어 개발 방법 분석)

  • Jo, Hyun-Jeong;Hwang, Jong-Gyu;Yoon, Yong-Ki
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.57 no.2
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    • pp.65-71
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    • 2008
  • Recently, many critical control systems are developed using formal methods. When software applied to such systems is developed, the employment of formal methods in the software requirements specification and verification will provide increased. assurance for such applications. Earlier error of overlooked requirement specification can be detected using formal specification method. Also the testing and full verification to examine all reachable states using model checking to undertake formal verification are able to be completed. In this paper, we propose an eclectic approach to incorporate Z(Zed) formal language and 'Statemate MAGNUM' which is formal method tools using Statechart for applying to the railway signaling systems.

The Conversion of a Set, a Sequence, and a Map in VDM to a Linked List in a Programming Language (VDM의 자료구조인 set, sequency, map의 프로그래밍 언어 자료구조인 linked list로의 변환)

  • Yu, Mun-Seong
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.8D no.4
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    • pp.421-426
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    • 2001
  • A formal development method is used to develop software rigorously and systematically. In a formal development method, we specify system by a formal specification language and gradually develop the system more concretely until we can implement the system. VDM is one of formal specification languages. VDM uses mathematical data structures such as sets, sequences, and maps to specify the system, but most programming languages do not have such data structures. Therefore, these data structures should be converted. We can convert mathematical data structures in VDM to a linked list, a data structure in a programming language. In this article, we propose a method to convert a set, a sequence, and a map in VDM to a linked list in a programming language and prove the correctness of this conversion mathematically.

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Formal Validation Method and Tools for French Computerized Railway Interlocking Systems

  • Antoni, Marc
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.99-106
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    • 2009
  • Checks and tests before putting safety facilities into service as well as the results of these tests are essential, time consuming and may show great variations between each other. Economic constraints and the increasing complexity associated with the development of computerized tools tend to limit the capacity of the classic approval process (manual or automatic). A reduction of the validation cover rate could result in practice. This is not compatible with the French national plan to renew the interlocking systems of the national network. The method and the tool presented in this paper makes it possible to formally validate new computerized systems or evolutions of existing French interlocking systems with real-time functional interpreted Petri nets. The aim of our project is to provide SNCF with a method for the formal validation of French interlocking systems. A formal proof method by assertion, which is applicable to industrial automation equipment such as interlocking systems, and which covers equally the specification and its real software implementation, is presented in this paper. With the proposed method we completely verify that the system follows all safety properties at all times and does not show superfluous conditions: it replaces all the indoor checks (not the outdoor checks). The advantages expected are a significant reduction of testing time and of the related costs, an increase of the test coverage rate, an answer to the new demand of railway infrastructure maintenance engineering to modify and validate computerized interlocking systems. Formal methods mastery by infrastructure engineers are surely a key to prove that more safety is not necessarily more expensive.

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Verification method and Simulation of Object model Converted to Formal Specification (형식명세로 변환된 객체모델의 검증방법과 시뮬레이션)

  • Lim, Keun
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.123-130
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, We define convert rules from objects and relation presented in object model to the state and operation domain in formal specification. Namely, object and relation in information model converted to state domain in formal specification. State, event and behavior converted to operation domain. And that way informal object model change to formal language, it can be verify through formal method. Verification process make an offer convenience and confidence in software development early phase. And we implement simulation tool in order to verification method of formal specification and to consistency verified model between user's requirement. It is possible to select the suitable model and reduce the costs and efforts on software development.

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