Interventions to improve the well-being of family caregivers of patients on hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis: a systematic review

AC Hovadick, VR Jardim, C Paúl, A Pagano, I Reis… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Background The family caregivers of patients on hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis
(PD) typically experience higher burden than the general population because of the nature …

A systematic literature review of the use of formal methods in medical software systems

S Bonfanti, A Gargantini… - Journal of Software …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The use of formal methods is often recommended to guarantee the provision of necessary
services and to assess the correctness of critical properties, such as functional safety …

SMT solving for the validation of B and Event-B models

J Schmidt, M Leuschel - International Journal on Software Tools for …, 2022 - Springer
ProB provides a constraint solver for the B-method written in Prolog and can make use of
different backends based on SAT and SMT solving. One such backend translates B and …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating formal methods into medical software development: The ASM approach

P Arcaini, S Bonfanti, A Gargantini, A Mashkoor… - Science of Computer …, 2018 - Elsevier
Medical devices are safety-critical systems since their malfunctions can seriously
compromise human safety. Correct operation of a medical device depends upon the …

Improving SMT solver integrations for the validation of B and Event-B models

J Schmidt, M Leuschel - Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems …, 2021 - Springer
ProB provides a constraint solver for the B-method written in Prolog and optionally can make
use of different backends based on SAT or SMT solving. One such solver integration …

Bridging the gap between informal requirements and formal specifications using model federation

FR Golra, F Dagnat, J Souquières, I Sayar… - … Engineering and Formal …, 2018 - Springer
Software development projects seeking a high level of accuracy reach out to formal methods
as early as the requirements engineering phase. However the client perspective of the future …

Validating the requirements and design of a hemodialysis machine using iUML-B, BMotion studio, and co-simulation

TS Hoang, C Snook, L Ladenberger… - … , Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, and Z …, 2016 - Springer
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 …

Adaptive exterior light and speed control system

F Houdek, A Raschke - Rigorous State-Based Methods: 7th International …, 2020 - Springer
This case study continues the successful series of case studies for formal specification and
verification of the ABZ conference series, which started with the landing gear system [1] and …

SMT-based automatic proof of ASM model refinement

P Arcaini, A Gargantini, E Riccobene - … , SEFM 2016, Held as Part of STAF …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Model refinement is a technique indispensable for modeling large and complex
systems. Many formal specification methods share this concept which usually comes …

Hemodialysis machine in hybrid Event-B

R Banach - Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, and Z: 5th …, 2016 - Springer
The hemodialysis machine case study is examined in Hybrid Event-B (an extension of Event-
B that includes provision for continuously varying behaviour as well as the usual discrete …