[HTML][HTML] A formal approach to modeling and verification of business process collaborations

F Corradini, F Fornari, A Polini, B Re, F Tiezzi - Science of Computer …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the last years we are observing a growing interest in verification of business process
models that, despite their lack of formal characterization, are widely adopted in industry and …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling and analysing variability in product families: Model checking of modal transition systems with variability constraints

MH ter Beek, A Fantechi, S Gnesi, F Mazzanti - Journal of Logical and …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present the formal underpinnings of a modelling and analysis framework for the
specification and verification of variability in product families. We address variability at the …

VMC: recent advances and challenges ahead

MH ter Beek, F Mazzanti - … of the 18th International Software Product …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
The variability model checker VMC accepts a product family specified as a Modal Transition
System (MTS) with additional variability constraints. Consequently, it offers behavioral …

Towards formal methods diversity in railways: an experience report with seven frameworks

F Mazzanti, A Ferrari, GO Spagnolo - International Journal on Software …, 2018 - Springer
In the ever expanding universe of formal methods, several tools exist that can be exploited to
validate early system designs, and that are applicable to problems of the railway domain. In …

VMC: a tool for product variability analysis

MH ter Beek, F Mazzanti, A Sulova - International Symposium on Formal …, 2012 - Springer
We present VMC, a tool for the modeling and analysis of variability in product lines. It
accepts a product family specified as a modal transition system, possibly with additional …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation for lattice-valued doubly labeled transition systems

H Pan, Y Cao, M Zhang, Y Chen - International Journal of Approximate …, 2014 - Elsevier
During the last decades, a large amount of multi-valued transition systems, whose
transitions or states are labeled with specific weights, have been proposed to analyze …

[HTML][HTML] On the expressiveness of modal transition systems with variability constraints

MH ter Beek, F Damiani, S Gnesi, F Mazzanti… - Science of Computer …, 2019 - Elsevier
We demonstrate that modal transition systems with variability constraints are equally
expressive as featured transition systems, by defining a transformation of the latter into the …

[HTML][HTML] A calculus for orchestration of web services

R Pugliese, F Tiezzi - Journal of Applied Logic, 2012 - Elsevier
Service-oriented computing, an emerging paradigm for distributed computing based on the
use of services, is calling for the development of tools and techniques to build safe and …

Multi-tenant Verification-as-a-Service (VaaS) in a cloud

K Hu, L Lei, WT Tsai - Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 2016 - Elsevier
Formal methods and verification technique are often used to develop mission-critical
systems. Cloud computing offers new computation models for applications and the new …

From EU projects to a family of model checkers: from Kandinsky to KandISTI

MH ter Beek, S Gnesi, F Mazzanti - … : Essays Dedicated to Martin Wirsing on …, 2015 - Springer
We describe the development of the KandISTI family of model checkers from its origins
nearly two decades ago until its very recent latest addition. Most progress was made …