Over the past nine years, the Formal Methods Group at the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory
has made steady progress in developing tools and techniques that make the power of model …

RuleBase is a symbolic model checking tool, developed by the IBM Haifa Research
Laboratory. It is the result of four years of experience in practical formal verification of …

Formal tools are either too labor intensive or are completely impractical for industrial-size
problems. This paper describes two formal verification tools used within Motorola, Versys2 …

Hardware and software systems will inevitably grow in scale and functionality. Because of
this increase in complexity, the likelihood of subtle errors is much greater. Moreover, some of …

The ultimate goal of formal methods is to provide assurances about the quality, performance,
security, etc. of systems. While formal tools have advanced greatly over the past two …

We examine IBM's exploitation of formal verification using RuleBase—a formal verification
tool developed by the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory. The goal of the paper is …

In the past two decades, model-checking has emerged as a promising and powerful
approach to fully automatic verification of hardware systems. But model checking technology …

Modern aircraft contain millions of lines of complex software, much of it performing functions
that are critical to safe flight. This software must be verified to function correctly with the …

In recent years, formal methods have emerged as an alternative approach to ensuring the
quality and correctness of hardware designs, overcoming some of the limitations of …

This book is about formal veri? cation, that is, the use of mathematical reasoning to ensure
correct execution of computing systems. With the increasing use of c-puting systems in …