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Formal Method Sites:
- Dick Botting's Home Page It's not a purely formal methods page, to any degree, but it contains many good links, including links to numerous software
engineering-related topics.
- ProofPower is a commercial tool, developed and marketed by ICL, supporting development
and checking of specifications and formal proofs in Higher Order Logic
and/or Z. Support for Z uses a deep(ish) embedding of Z into HOL, but includes
syntax and type checking customised for Z. Information is available fromWWW pages (still under transformation) or an email server. To use the email
server send "help" to: ProofPower-server@win.icl.co.uk
- The Computational Logic Inc.home page provides pointers to information on Nqthm, the theorem prover for the Boyer-Moore logic,CLI Technical Reports,current
CLI research, and a summary and slides from the Computational Logic 1994 Research Review.
- Rubyis a notation and design discipline intended for the development of regular
integrated circuits and similar hardware and software architectures. The
intention is to formalise the design techniques already used by practising
engineers, making it easier to document design decisions, to compare alternative
designs, and to produce proof of the correctness of an implementation.
- NASA Langley Research Lab has a Virtual Library that is documented on the web. The major goals of NASA
Langley's research program are to make formal methods practical for use
on life-critical systems developed in the United States, and to orchestrate
the transfer of this technology to industry through use of carefully designed
demonstration projects.
- The Virtual Library has a page on formal methods and particularly onHOLmaintained by Jonathan Bowen, (Jonathan.Bowen@comlab.ox.ac.uk). It is an
excellent reference to formal methods and sites.
- Kestrel Instituteis a non-profit research
institute focusing on formal and knowledge-based methods for incremental
automation of the software process.
- INRIA has the following
projects related to aspects of formal methods:COQ(software specifications and proofs), PROGRAIS(derivation of specifications and programs), andSAFIR(algebraic formal systems for industry and research).
- Oxford University has information on the ESPRIT ProCoSproject and Working Group, the ESPRIT REDOproject, and the UK IED safemos project.
- Larch is a multi-site
project exploring methods, languages, and tools for the practical use of
formal specifications.
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