Jean-Louis Boulanger 
Formal Methods Applied to Complex Systems [PDF ebook] 
Implementation of the B Method

This book presents real-world examples of formal techniques in an industrial context. It covers formal methods such as SCADE and/or the B Method, in various fields such as railways, aeronautics, and the automotive industry. The purpose of this book is to present a summary of experience on the use of 'formal methods’ (based on formal techniques such as proof, abstract interpretation and model-checking) in industrial examples of complex systems, based on the experience of people currently involved in the creation and assessment of safety critical system software. The involvement of people from within the industry allows the authors to avoid the usual confidentiality problems which can arise and thus enables them to supply new useful information (photos, architecture plans, real examples, etc.).

Spis treści

1. Presentation of the B Method, Jean-Louis Boulanger.

2. Atelier B, Thierry Lecomte.

3. B Tools, Jean-Louis Boulanger.

4. The B Method at Siemens, Daniel Dolle.

5. Industrial Applications for Modeling with the B Method,
Thierry Lecomte.

6. Formalization of Digital Circuits Using the B Method,
Jean-Louis Boulanger.

7. Pragmatic Use of B: The Power of Formal Methods without the
Bulk, Christophe Metayer, François Bustany, Mathieu
Clabaut.

8. BRILLANT/BCaml–AFree Tools Platform for the B Method,
Samuel Colin, Dorian Petit.

9. Translating B and Event-B Machines to Java and JML,
Néstor Catano, Víctor Rivera, Camilo Rueday and Tim
Wahlsz.

10. Event B, Dominique Méry, Neeraj Kumar Singh.

11. B-RAIL: UML to B Transformation in Modeling a Level
Crossing, Jean-Louis Boulanger.

12. Feasibility of the Use of Formal Methods for Manufacturing
Systems, Pascal Lamy, Philippe Charpentier, Jean-François
Petinand Dominique Evrot.

13. B Extended to Floating-Point Numbers: Is It Sufficient for
Proving Avionics Software?, Jean-Louis Dufour.

14. From Animation to Data Validation: The Pro B Constraint
Solver 10 Years On, Michael Leuschel, Jens Bendisposto, Ivo
Dobrikov, Sebastian Krings, Daniel Plagge.

15. Unified Train Driving Policy, Alexei Iliasov, Ilya Lopatkin,
Alexander Romanovsky.

O autorze

Jean-Louis Boulanger is currently an Independent Safety Assessor (ISA) in the railway domain focusing on software elements. He is a specialist in software engineering (requirement engineering, semi-formal and formal method, proof and model-checking). He also works as an expert for the French notified body CERTIFER in the field of certification of safety critical railway applications based on software (ERTMS, SCADA, automatic subway, etc.). His research interests include requirements, software verification and validation, traceability and RAMS with a special focus on SAFETY.