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Patterns for Representing FMEA in Formal Specification of Control Systems

Ilya Lopatkin, Alexei Iliasov, Alexander Romanovsky, Yuliya Prokhorova, Elena Troubitsyna, Patterns for Representing FMEA in Formal Specification of Control Systems. In: Ankur Agarwal, Swapna Gokhale, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium (HASE 2011), 146-151, IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS), 2011.

Abstract:

Failure Modes and Effects analysis (FMEA) is a widely used technique for inductive safety analysis. FMEA provides engineers with valuable information about failure modes of system components as well as procedures for error detection and recovery. In this paper we propose an approach that facilitates representation of FMEA results in formal Event-B specifications of control systems. We define a number of patterns for representing requirements derived from FMEA in formal system model specified in Event-B. The patterns help the developers to trace the requirements from safety analysis to formal specification. Moreover, they allow them to increase automation of formal system development by refinement. Our approach is illustrated by an example - a sluice control system.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{iLoIlRoPrTr11a,
  title = {Patterns for Representing FMEA in Formal Specification of Control Systems},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium (HASE 2011)},
  author = {Lopatkin, Ilya and Iliasov, Alexei and Romanovsky, Alexander and Prokhorova, Yuliya and Troubitsyna, Elena},
  editor = {Agarwal, Ankur and Gokhale, Swapna and Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M.},
  publisher = {IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS)},
  pages = {146-151},
  year = {2011},
  keywords = {formal specification, Event-B, FMEA, patterns, safety, control systems},
}

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