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This talk will consider a few cases from the ACM Risks Forum archives {http://www.risks.org} for which the sensible use of formal methods could have made a decisive difference in avoiding serious consequences – with respect to requirements, specifications, human interfaces, implementation, and even operation, typically in systems that were supposedly safe, reliable, or secure. This will provide a view to the future in terms of things we can learn about the past.
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Neumann, P.G. (2004). When Can Formal Methods Make a Real Difference?. In: Davies, J., Schulte, W., Barnett, M. (eds) Formal Methods and Software Engineering. ICFEM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3308. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30482-1_7
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