A formal pattern architecture for safe medical systems

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationRewriting Logic and Its Applications - 8th International Workshop, WRLA 2010, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS 2010, Revised Selected Papers
Pages157-173
Number of pages17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event8th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and Its Applications, WRLA 2010, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS 2010 - Paphos, Cyprus
Duration: Mar 20 2010Mar 21 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6381 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other8th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and Its Applications, WRLA 2010, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS 2010
Country/TerritoryCyprus
CityPaphos
Period3/20/103/21/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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