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Towards Leveraging Domain Knowledge in State-Based Formal Methods

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System engineering development processes rely on modelling activities that lead to different design models corresponding to different analyses of the system under consideration.

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This work was partially supported by grants ANR-13-INSE-0001 (The IMPEX Project http://impex.loria.fr), ANR-14-CE28-000 (The FORMOSE Project http://formose.lacl.fr/), ANR-17-CE25-0005 (The DISCONT Project http://discont.loria.fr) and ANR-19-CE25-0010-01 (The EBRP Project https://www.irit.fr/EBRP/) from the French national research agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR).

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    Yamine Aït-Ameur & Neeraj Kumar Singh

  2. LACL, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Créteil, France

    Régine Laleau

  3. LORIA, Université de Lorraine and Telecom Nancy, Nancy, France

    Dominique Méry

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Aït-Ameur, Y., Laleau, R., Méry, D., Singh, N.K. (2021). Towards Leveraging Domain Knowledge in State-Based Formal Methods. In: Raschke, A., Riccobene, E., Schewe, KD. (eds) Logic, Computation and Rigorous Methods. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12750. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76020-5_1

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