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#formalmethods

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harryprayiv

If you’re a #haskell user or a proponent of #functionalprogramming please consider donating to the #Purescript project to keep it alive.

It’s a fairly obscure project but, IMO, it is THE language for web #frontend.

On top of that, the backend was recently rewritten in #ChezScheme which tends to be very popular choice in the #formalmethods world due to its rigor.

I see #ghcjs nipping at its heels but IMO, PS will always be a more bespoke and opinionated tool.

opencollective.com/purescript/

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Jan de Muijnck-Hughes

*Last Call*

I have a #PhD position for UK students, available with myself and @bentnib

This project will be looking at developing new methods for asserting the resilience of existing communicating systems by developing new static analysis methods derived from advanced programming language research.

*Hard Deadline*: Wednesday 16th April 2025

You will belong to @StrathCyber and @mspstrath, as well as gaining access to @spli

strath.ac.uk/studywithus/postg

(Ignore the deadline on the advert)

Please spread the words.

www.strath.ac.ukTowards Type-Driven Assurance of Communicating Systems | University of Strathclyde
#dependentTypes#formalMethods#idris
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Andrew Helwer

Reading the new experience report paper "System Correctness Practices at AWS" by @marcbrooker & Ankush Desai, a successor to 2015 paper "How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods". Documents a whole buffet of industrial formal methods use: P (including new tool PObserve for runtime trace validation), deterministic simulation testing in Rust with the open-sourced Shuttle and Turmoil tools, Dafny, HOL Light, and the open-sourced Kani model-checker for Rust.

While TLA⁺ was the most prominent featured tool in the 2015 paper, it's been lost in the crowd here as part of a clear shift toward verifying & testing the actual running code. I think TLA⁺ must carve out a niche for itself in a world where deterministic simulation testing becomes a commodity technology, or it risks losing relevance same as other design-level tools like UML. There are existing case studies on using TLA⁺ for trace validation and model-driven testing, but a lot of effort needs to go into tooling for making such integrations as smooth as possible instead of bespoke one-off projects.

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3712057

QueueSystems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-formal Methods: Queue: Vol 22, No 6 Building reliable and secure software requires a range of approaches to reason about systems correctness. Alongside industry-standard testing methods (such as unit and integration testing), AWS has adopted model checking, fuzzing, property-based testing, ...
#TLAplus#FormalMethods
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Askar Safin

Good quote:
Programming language design is kind of just the unbelievably difficult task of tricking programmers into using formal methods tools, by presenting them in an ergonomic way that doesn’t obstruct how people are used to writing software in a given era. Necessarily each push forward rules out more and more common sources of bugs.
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#plt #typespl #formalmethods #logic

lobste.rsVine: A programming language based on Interaction Nets | Lobsters
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Jan de Muijnck-Hughes

I have a funded #PhD position for UK students, available with myself and @bentnib

This project will be looking at developing new methods for asserting the resilience of existing communicating systems by developing new static analysis methods derived from advanced programming language research.

Deadline: Thursday 20th March 2025

You will belong to @StrathCyber and @mspstrath, as well as gaining access to @spli

For now more details about the project are on my personal website.

tyde.systems/page/position/202

Please spread the words.

Jan de Muijnck-HughesTowards Type-Driven Assurance of Communicating SystemsDeadline Thursday 20 March 2025 Duration 36 Months Start Date October 2025 Funding Home fee, Stipend Supervisors Jan de Muijnck-Hughes, Bob Atkey Groups StrathCyber, MSP This JARSS PhD studentship will develop new methods for asserting the resilience of existing communicating systems by developing new static analysis methods derived from advanced programming language research as pioneered by the supervising team, and the wider MSP and StrathCyber research groups. Contact Informal enquiries about the studentship are to be directed to Jan de Muijnck-Hughes (Jan.
#dependentTypes#formalMethods#idris
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Ilya Shchepetkov

New Alloy release! alloytools.discourse.group/t/a

I like it's syntax very much, it is very elegant. Visualizations are also a great built-in Alloy feature, they make #formalmethods more accessible.

The Alloy Language and Tools · Alloy 6.2.0 released!Dear colleagues, on behalf of the AlloyTools development team, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Alloy 6.2.0. This version adds in particular the following features: many usability improvements in the editor and the Visualizer a brand new command-line interface that should be useful for automation, benchmarks… an update of the Electrod backend addressing all the language an improvement to the meta layer allowing to select static and mutable elements of a model I would particula...
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Volker Stolz

From our colleagues over at @fme: "FME’s Teaching Committee has recently organised a special issue of Formal Aspects of Computing that puts forward different perspectives on why and how Formal Methods should be represented in Computer Science curricula.

A summary article of the discussed perspectives appeared in the December 2024 issue of ACM Inroads: The Role of Formal Methods in Computer Science Education."

fmeurope.org/2024/10/02/does-e

www.fmeurope.orgDoes every Computer Scientist need to know Formal Methods? · Formal Methods Europe
#formalmethods#computerscience
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FMASWorkshop

Last week was the Sixth International Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems, held in Manchester and co-located with iFM 24.

FMAS 2024 had 14 paper presentations, two invited speakers, one invited tutorial, (and was a lot of fun, too).

Now the proceedings are published so you can read about how researchers are using Formal Methods to tackle the challenges of Autonomous Systems

buff.ly/3ZigOaf

#FMAS2024
#FormalMethods

The front of the Core Technology Facility, in Manchester. A brick, metal, and glass facade. The sun is shining weakly.
A group of people, all attending the FMAS workshop. Everyone is looking at the camera, some smiling. But everyone looks like they had a nice time, at least.
The front of the Whitworh Gallery in Manchester, a red-brick Victorian building, with a semi-circular portico as its main entrace. There are some leaves on the floor; it is Autum and the trees have turned almost as red as the building's bricks, slowly fluttering to the floor.
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