Abstract
We provide a rapid overview of the theoretical foundations and main applications of abstract interpretation and show that it currently provides scaling solutions to achieving assurance in mission- and safety-critical systems through verification by fully automatic, semantically sound and precise static program analysis.
Keywords
- Abstract interpretation
- Abstraction
- Aerospace
- Certification
- Cyber-physical system
- Formal Method
- Mission-critical system
- Runtime error
- Safety-critical system
- Scalability
- Soundness
- Static Analysis
- Validation
- Verification
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Cousot, P. (2012). Formal Verification by Abstract Interpretation. In: Goodloe, A.E., Person, S. (eds) NASA Formal Methods. NFM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7226. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28891-3_3
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