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This paper investigates the use of the probabilistic and continuous extensions of action systems in the development and calculation of reliability of continuous, real-time systems. Rather than develop a new semantics to formally combine the existing extensions, it investigates a methodology for using them together, and the conditions under which this methodology is sound. A key feature of the methodology is that it simplifies the development process by separating the probabilistic calculations of system reliability from the details of the system’s real-time, continuous behaviour.
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Meinicke, L., Smith, G. (2007). A Stepwise Development Process for Reasoning About the Reliability of Real-Time Systems. In: Davies, J., Gibbons, J. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4591. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73210-5_23
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