Synthesizing verified components for cyber assured systems engineering

E Mercer, K Slind, I Amundson, D Cofer, J Babar… - Software and Systems …, 2023 - Springer
Safety-critical systems such as avionics need to be engineered to be cyber resilient meaning
that systems are able to detect and recover from attacks or safely shutdown. As there are few …

Model-driven development for the seL4 microkernel using the HAMR framework

J Belt, J Hatcliff, J Shackleton, J Carciofini… - Journal of Systems …, 2023 - Elsevier
Verified microkernels such as seL4 provide trustworthy foundations for safety-and security-
critical systems. However, their full potential remains unrealized due, in part, to the lack of …

Formalization of the AADL run-time services

J Hatcliff, J Hugues, D Stewart, L Wrage - International Symposium on …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Architecture and Analysis Definition Language (AADL) is an industry standard
modeling language distinguished by its emphasis on strong semantics for modeling real …

Automated property-based testing from AADL component contracts

J Hatcliff, J Belt, Robby, J Legg, D Stewart… - … Conference on Formal …, 2023 - Springer
Effective and scalable quality assurance techniques are essential for realizing formal model-
based development techniques for high-assurance systems. In this paper, we present the …

Logika: The Sireum Verification Framework

Robby, J Hatcliff, J Belt - International Conference on Formal Methods for …, 2024 - Springer
This paper gives an overview of Logika–a highly automated and interactive verification
framework, that is designed for scalability and usability across a wide spectrum of users from …

A mechanized semantics for component-based systems in the HAMR AADL runtime

S Hallerstede, J Hatcliff - International Conference on Formal Aspects of …, 2023 - Springer
Many visions for model-driven component-based development emphasize models as the
“single source of truth” by which different forms of analysis, specification, verification, and …

Model-based security analysis in additive manufacturing systems

MR Durling, A Moitra, KY Siu, B Meng… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Additive manufacturing (AM) is expected to revolutionize industrial manufacturing processes
by providing access to readily available, lower cost, high-performance parts, including those …

Zero-trust design and assurance patterns for cyber–physical systems

S Hasan, I Amundson, D Hardin - Journal of Systems Architecture, 2024 - Elsevier
Security is paramount in all mission-critical domains, including the aerospace industry.
Cyber-attacks are increasing both in number and sophistication. Zero-trust is an emerging …

Towards a Methodology to Design Provably Secure Cyber-physical Systems

F Lisboa Malaquias, G Giantamidis… - ACM SIGAda Ada …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The inordinate financial cost of mitigating post-production cybersecurity vulnerabilities in
cyber-physical systems (CPS) is forcing the industry to rethink systems design cycles …

Is formal verification of seL4 adequate to address the key security challenges of kernel design?

MS Siapoush, J Alves-Foss - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Formal method tools are used in the initial stages of the software development cycle and
have advanced to deal with the design difficulties related to ensuring strong cybersecurity …