KIV is a tool for formal systems development and interactive verification.
It can be employed, e.g.,
- for the development of safety critical systems from formal requirements specifications downto executable code, including the verification of safety requirements and the correctness of implementations,
- for semantical foundations of programming languages from a specification of the semantics downto a verified compiler,
- for building security models and architectural models as they are needed for high level ITSEC or CC evaluations.
Special care was (and is) taken to provide strong proof support for all validation and verification tasks. KIV can handle large scale formal models by efficient proof techniques, multi-user support, and an ergonomical user interface. It has been used in a number of industrial pilot applications, but is also useful as an educational tool for formal methods courses.