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Design patterns have demonstrated major practical uses for cost savings and modular design in software engineering. For safety-critical systems, however, such patterns should also provide formal guarantees that critical safety properties are met. We leverage the power of rewriting logic and parameterization available in Real-Time Maude to add a formal basis for analysis of a novel safety pattern for medical devices. We demonstrate practicality and applicability of our pattern by instantiating it to a pacemaker specification, and we validate our pattern by verifying the safety invariant in the pacemaker instantiation.
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Sun, M., Meseguer, J., Sha, L. (2010). A Formal Pattern Architecture for Safe Medical Systems. In: Ölveczky, P.C. (eds) Rewriting Logic and Its Applications. WRLA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6381. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16310-4_11
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