Title
Just-in-Time Certification
Abstract
Traditional, standards-based approaches to certification are hugely expensive, of questionable credibility when development is outsourced, and a barrier to innovation. This paper is a call and a manifesto for new approaches to certification. We start by advocating a goal-based approach in which unconditional claims delivered by formal methods are combined with other evidence in multi-legged cases supported by Bayesian analysis. We then describe the necessity, and the challenge, of extending this to compositional certification and outline promising directions for accomplishing this. Finally, we consider the provocative possibility of adaptive systems in which methods of analysis traditionally used to support certification at design time are instead used for synthesis and monitoring at runtime, and certification is performed "just-in-time."
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/ICECCS.2007.26
Auckland
Keywords
Field
DocType
formal method,provocative possibility,bayesian analysis,compositional certification,goal-based approach,just-in-time certification,design time,promising direction,adaptive system,new approach,multi-legged case,certification,adaptive systems,hazards,testing,failure analysis,formal verification
Systems engineering,Software engineering,Software certification,Credibility,Computer science,Adaptive system,Formal methods,Certification,Manifesto,Formal verification
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2895-3
19
0.92
References 
Authors
27
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John Rushby12459235.69