The KORSO Approach to the Development of Reliable Information Systems

KORSO was a joint project of fourteen university partners and one industrial partner, sponsored by the German Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT). The project aimed at the consolidation of existing and the investigation of new methods for the development of correct software. Within this framework the focus of the KORSO group at the Technical University of Braunschweig was on the improvement of techniques for the development of reliable information systems. Our work focused on the specification language TROLL light which allows to describe the part of the world to be modeled as a community of concurrently existing and communicating objects. Our specification language comes along with an integrated, open development environment. The task of this environment is to give support for the creation of correct information systems. This report summarizes the results achieved by the Braunschweig KORSO group.