Section: Overall Objectives

Overall Objectives

Software has known a spectacular development this last decade both in its scope of applicability and its size. Nevertheless, software design and development methods remain mostly manual, hence error-prone. It follows that complex software-based systems are unsafe and insecure, which is not acceptable in safety-critical or mission-critical applications. Intellectual and computer-based tools must therefore be developed to cope with the safety and security problems.

The notions of abstraction and approximation , as formalized by the abstract interpretation theory , are fundamental to design, model, develop, analyze, and verify highly complex systems, from computer-based to biological ones. They also underlie the design of safety and security verification tools .