Section: Research Program

Introduction

The SPADES research program is organized around three main themes, Design and Programming Models, Certified real-time programming, and Fault management and causal analysis, that seek to answer the three key questions identified in Section 2.1. We plan to do so by developing and/or building on programming languages and techniques based on formal methods and formal semantics (hence the use of “sound programming” in the project-team title). In particular, we seek to support design where correctness is obtained by construction, relying on proven tools and verified constructs, with programming languages and programming abstractions designed with verification in mind.