Visual Figaro is an integrated environment to develop component libraries for the dependability modeling tool KB3 used by EDF (http://www.edf.fr/recherche/codes-de-calcul/kb3). KB3 is based on the FIGARO reliability modeling language, suitable for describing CTMC (continuous time Markov chains), DES (discrete event simulation) models, and for automatic generation of fault trees. FIGARO is objet oriented, close to natural language and enables building libraries of reusable components (knowledge...