FORMS/FORMAT 2010

Complexity in automation- and safety systems in railway as well as automotive applications are dominated more and more by formal description means, methods and tools. Formal techniques provide next to correctness and integrity checkups - especially for safety relevant systems - the possibility to model, prove, simulate and check the specification of the system as well as to generate the system implementations.Requirements of the CENELEC- and IEC-Standards on formal techniques, particularly with regard to the handling of safety analysis, are to be treated in FORMS/FORMAT 2010. The main focus lies on topics facing formal techniques for railway applications and intelligent transportation systems as well as for automotive applications. Gained findings, experiences and also difficulties associated with the handling of the subject matter as well as description means and tools are to be shown.

The articles describe the latest development in the field of formal methods and description means.

AFormal description means and methods - Concepts, Applications and Requirements in Traffic and Transportation(simulation, UML, Petrinets, AIS, etc.)BRequirements and Applications in Railway(signaling applications, model based design and analysis)CRequirements and Applications in Automotive and Vehicular Technology(control of driving dynamic systems, driver assistance; UML in automotive systems; model based development, diagnosis etc.)DMethods and Tools for Modeling, Validation / Verification, Tests and Diagnosis(system related and functional validation, limits of formal methods, problems using automated tests etc.)ELegal framework(directives, laws, regulations, standards and norms, certification etc.)FSafety and Security(Reliability, Availability and Maintainability, methods for risk analysis; risk acceptance, risk measures, evaluation of RAMS-Parameter)GHuman factors and human behaviour(learning, manipulation, FCR-modeling etc.)