In the Systems Engineering (SE) domain there has been a paradigm shift from document-
based to model-based system development artefacts; in fact, new methodologies are …

The symmetry between customer expectations and operator goals, on one hand, and the
digital transition of the railways, on the other hand, is one of the main factors affecting green …

Formal methods and tools have become well established and widely applied to ensure the
correctness of fundamental components of industrial critical systems in domains like …

Moving Block is a railway signaling concept that paves the way for increasing line capacity
while reducing maintenance and operating costs. Its implementation relies on autonomous …

The prospected advent of advanced train control systems, such as moving block and virtual
coupling, raises the issue of the effects that uncertainty on critical parameters (such as …

The contract automata runtime environment (CARE) is a distributed middleware application
recently introduced to realise service applications specified using a dialect of finite-state …

Model checking real-time systems is complex, and requires a careful trade-off between
including enough detail to be useful and not too much detail to avoid state explosion. This …

We revisit the principle of Smart Sampling which makes it possible to apply Statistical Model
Checking on stochastic and non-deterministic systems. We point out difficulties in the design …

ABZ and other state-based formal methods and tools are successfully applied to the
development of safety-critical systems for decades now, in particular in the transport domain …

The identification of the position of rail vehicles plays a crucial role in the control of rail traffic.
Available, up-to-date information on the position of vehicles allows us to efficiently deal with …