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Assertional specification and verification using PVS of the steam boiler control system

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Formal Methods for Industrial Applications

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An implementation of the steam boiler control system has been derived using a formal method based on assumption/commitment pairs. Intermediate stages of top-down design are represented in a mixed formalism where programs and assertional specifications are combined in a single framework. Design steps can be verified by means of compositional proof rules. This framework has been defined in the specification language of the verification system PVS. By the interactive proof checker of PVS, the correctness of each refinement step has been checked mechanically.

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  1. Institut für Informatik und Praktische Mathematik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

    Jan Vitt

  2. Dept. of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

    Jozef Hooman

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Vitt, J., Hooman, J. (1996). Assertional specification and verification using PVS of the steam boiler control system. In: Abrial, JR., Börger, E., Langmaack, H. (eds) Formal Methods for Industrial Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1165. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0027249

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