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      Formal Methods and Standards - An Idiosyncratic View

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      Proceedings of the 2nd BCS-FACS Northern Formal Methods (FM)
      Northern Formal Methods
      14-15 July 1997
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            Abstract

            Many of the reported experiences in the industrial use of formal methods concern the development of products or product families, where the utility of the method is linked to direct savings in development costs or improved assurance of quality. However, one other area in which formal description techniques make a valuable contribution is in the development and documentation of International Standards, where the cost of using formal methods can be paid off both through increased quality of products that implement a given standard, and through the improved inter-operability of different implementations that comes from having a precise definition of the expected behaviour of a conforming implementation. The process of standardization within ISO/IEC is complex, and affords the oppertunity to use formal methods at different stages and in different ways. This paper illustrates how formal methods have been used in the development of two standards, the computer graphics standard, GKS, and the multi-media standard, PREMO. Formal methods have been used at different points during their development. This paper concludes with an appraisial of the work done and some thoughts about future directions.

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            Conference
            July 1997
            July 1997
            : 1-11
            Affiliations
            [0001]Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

            Chilton, Didcot, United Kingdom
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/FA1997.5
            3f084e53-cc49-4c16-8ec7-719f84713ef9
            © David A. Duce. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the 2nd BCS-FACS Northern Formal Methods Workshop, Ilkley

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Proceedings of the 2nd BCS-FACS Northern Formal Methods
            FM
            2
            Ilkley
            14-15 July 1997
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Northern Formal Methods
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction

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