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In this paper we use HI-Maude to model and analyze the human thermoregulatory system and the effect of extreme heat exposure on the human body. This work is motivated by the 2010 Sauna World Championships, which ended in a tragedy when the last two finalists were severely burnt in surprisingly short time (one of them died the next day). HI-Maude is a recent rewriting-logic-based formal modeling language and analysis tool for complex hybrid systems whose components influence each others’ continuous dynamics. One distinguishing feature of HI-Maude is that the user only needs to describe the continuous dynamics of single components and interactions, instead of having to explicitly define the continuous dynamics of the entire system. HI-Maude analyses are based on numerical approximations of the system’s continuous behaviors. Our detailed models of human thermoregulation and the sauna used in the world championships allow us to use HI-Maude to formally analyze how long the human body can survive when experiencing extreme conditions, as well as analyzing possible explanations for the still unsolved tragedy at the 2010 Sauna World Championships.
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Fadlisyah, M., Ölveczky, P.C., Ábrahám, E. (2012). Formal Modeling and Analysis of Human Body Exposure to Extreme Heat in HI-Maude. In: Durán, F. (eds) Rewriting Logic and Its Applications. WRLA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7571. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34005-5_8
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