Developing Highly Predictable System Behavior in Real-Time Battle-Management Software

Formal Methods in a System-of-Systems Development

“…Formal methods help one test a significant number of test cases and support analysis that can be checked by verified model checkers. In operational software, the use of formal methods can significantly enhance the ability to catch and handle runtime errors [9].…”

“…In other words, we can transform the complex logic decisions at the bottom of the tree into simple Boolean statements so that we can capture the essence of the system behavior in the upper portions of the decision tree. By reducing the high number of lower-level logic statements that develop very specific solutions and have limited impact on the overall system behavior, we should be able to manage the state-explosion problem [9]. As an example of the state-explosion problem in terms of the battle manager, consider the following assertion:…”