TY - JOUR AB - The ubiquity of computation in modern machines and devices imposes a need to assert the correctness of their behavior. Especially in the case of safety-critical systems, their designers need to take measures that enforce their safe operation. Formal methods has emerged as a research field that addresses this challenge: by rigorously proving that all system executions adhere to their specifications, the correctness of an implementation under concern can be assured. To achieve this goal, a plethora of techniques are nowadays available, all of which are optimized for different system types and application domains. AU - Chatterjee, Krishnendu AU - Ehlers, RĂ¼diger ID - 719 IS - 6 JF - Acta Informatica SN - 00015903 TI - Special issue: Synthesis and SYNT 2014 VL - 54 ER -