Intelligent Systems and Formal Methods in Software Engineering
November/December 2006 (vol. 21 no. 6)
pp. 71-81
Formal methods in software engineering are an increasingly important application area for intelligent systems. The field has outgrown the area of academic case studies, and industry is showing serious interest. This installment of Trends & Controversies looks at the state of the art in formal methods and discusses the developments that make successful applications possible.
Index Terms:
formal methods, software engineering, program verification, deductive software verification, satisfiability modulo theories, software synthesis
Citation:
Bernhard Beckert, Tony Hoare, Reiner H?hnle, Douglas R. Smith, Cordell Green, Silvio Ranise, Cesare Tinelli, Thomas Ball, Sriram K. Rajamani, "Intelligent Systems and Formal Methods in Software Engineering," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 71-81, Nov./Dec. 2006, doi:10.1109/MIS.2006.117