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Formal Methods in Verification

This cluster of papers revolves around formal methods in software verification and control, focusing on topics such as model checking, symbolic model checking, satisfiability modulo theories, temporal logic, hybrid systems, automata, safety verification, control barrier functions, runtime verification, and probabilistic systems.

92,687 works

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Most cited

  1. Statecharts: a visual formalism for complex systems

    David Harel · 1987 · Science of Computer Programming · 6,754 citations

  2. A theory of timed automata

    Rajeev Alur, David L. Dill · 1994 · Theoretical Computer Science · 6,497 citations

  3. Protocol Analysis: Verbal Reports as Data

    M. Venkatesan, K. Anders Ericsson, Herbert A. Simon · 1986 · Journal of Marketing Research · 4,359 citations

  4. Planning and acting in partially observable stochastic domains

    Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Michael L. Littman, Anthony R. Cassandra · 1998 · Artificial Intelligence · 4,194 citations

  5. The model checker SPIN

    Gerard J. Holzmann · 1997 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 3,801 citations

  6. Automatic verification of finite-state concurrent systems using temporal logic specifications

    E. M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, A. Prasad Sistla · 1986 · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems · 3,587 citations

Most recent

  1. Checking Timed Bisimilarity with Virtual Clocks

    Alexander Lieb, Hendrik Göttmann, Lars Luthmann, Malte Lochau · 2026 · Fundamenta Informaticae · 0 citations

  2. Solving rational expectations models on non-periodic time domains

    Marco M. Sorge · 2026 · Mathematical Social Sciences · 0 citations

  3. Runtime Pass Is Not Correctness: A Negative Reasoning-Efficiency Post-Training Result and Verifier Audit on Qwen3.8-27B

    George Pu · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 0 citations

  4. Runtime Pass Is Not Correctness: A Negative Reasoning-Efficiency Post-Training Result and Verifier Audit on Qwen3.8-27B

    George Pu · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 0 citations

  5. Model-based robustness analysis as constraint-checking

    Johannes Nyström · 2026 · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 0 citations

  6. Empirical Comparison of Multi-Output Boolean Function Minimization Algorithms using Ternary-Indexed Prime Implicants

    Zaid Al-Wardi · 2026 · Academic Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 0 citations

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