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    Refinement of Statecharts with Run-to-Completion Semantics

    Statechart modelling notations, with so-called ‘run to completion’ semantics and simulation tools for validation, are popular with engineers for designing systems. However, they do not support formal refinemen...

    Karla Morris, Colin Snook, Thai Son Hoang in Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Syst… (2019)

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    Analysing Security Protocols Using Refinement in iUML-B

    We propose a general approach based on abstraction and refinement for constructing and analysing security protocols using formal specification and verification. We use class diagrams to specify conceptual syst...

    Colin Snook, Thai Son Hoang, Michael Butler in NASA Formal Methods (2017)

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    Class-Diagrams for Abstract Data Types

    We propose to extend iUML-B class-diagrams to elaborate Abstract Data Types (ADTs) specified using Event-B theories. Classes are linked to data types, while attributes and associations correspond to operators ...

    Thai Son Hoang, Colin Snook, Dana Dghaym in Theoretical Aspects of Computing – ICTAC 2… (2017)

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    Validating the Requirements and Design of a Hemodialysis Machine Using iUML-B, BMotion Studio, and Co-Simulation

    We present a formal specification of a hemodialysis machine (HD machine) using Event-B. We model the HD machine using iUML-B state-machines and class diagrams and build a corresponding BMotion Studio visualisa...

    Thai Son Hoang, Colin Snook in Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, TLA, VD… (2016)

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    On Component-Based Reuse for Event-B

    Efficient reuse is a goal of many software engineering strategies and is useful in the safety-critical domain where formal development is required. Event-B can be used to develop safety-critical systems, but c...

    Andrew Edmunds, Colin Snook, Marina Walden in Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, TLA, VD… (2016)

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    Applying an Integrated Modelling Process to Run-time Management of Many-Core Systems

    A Run-Time Management system for many-core architecture is aware of application requirements and able to save energy by sacrificing performance when it will have negligible impact on user experience. This paper o...

    Asieh Salehi Fathabadi, Colin Snook, Michael Butler in Integrated Formal Methods (2014)

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    A Practical Approach for Closed Systems Formal Verification Using Event-B

    Assurance of high integrity systems based on closed systems is a challenge that becomes difficult to overcome when a classical testing approach is used; in particular the evidence generated from a classical te...

    Brett Bicknell, Jose Reis, Michael Butler in Software Engineering and Formal Methods (2012)

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    Verification of UML Models by Translation to UML-B

    UML-B is a ‘UML like’ notation based on the Event-B formalism which allows models to be progressively detailed through refinements that are proven to be consistent and to satisfy safety invariants using the Ro...

    Colin Snook, Vitaly Savicks, Michael Butler in Formal Methods for Components and Objects (2012)

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    Language and Tool Support for Class and State Machine Refinement in UML-B

    UML-B is a ‘UML-like’ graphical front end for Event-B that provides support for object-oriented modelling concepts. In particular, UML-B supports class diagrams and state machines, concepts that are not explic...

    Mar Yah Said, Michael Butler, Colin Snook in FM 2009: Formal Methods (2009)

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    UML-B: A Plug-in for the Event-B Tool Set

    UML-B is a graphical formal modelling notation that relies on Event-B for its underlying semantics and is closely integrated with the ‘Rodin’, Event-B verification tools. UML-B is similar to UML but has its ow...

    Colin Snook, Michael Butler in Abstract State Machines, B and Z (2008)