Advances In Theory And Formal Methods Of Computing

Author : A Edalat,S Jourdan,G McCusker
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-25
Category : Computer science
ISBN : 9781783263547

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Advances in Theory and Formal Methods of Computing by A Edalat,S Jourdan,G McCusker Pdf

This volume contains the proceedings of the third workshop of the Theory and Formal Methods Section of the Department of Computing, Imperial College, London. It covers various topics in theoretical computer science. Formal specification, theorem proving, operational and denotational semantics, real number computation, computational measure theory, and neural networks are all represented. Contents:A Smooth Approximation on the Edge of Chaos (P J Potts)Gamma and the Logic of Transition Traces (S J Gay & C L Hankin)The Generalized Riemann Integral on Locally Compact Spaces (A Edalat & S Negri)Specifications as Spans of Geometric Morphisms (T Plewe)A Semantic View on Distributed Computability and Complexity (E Goubault)Process Algebra for Object-Oriented Specification (S J Liebert)Type Inference for a Typed Process Calculus (R Harmer)On an Algebraic Flavoring of the Logical Approach (T Dimitrakos)Extending B AMN with Concurrency (K Lano et al.)Full Abstraction by Translation (G McCusker)Syntactic Continuity from Structural Operational Semantics (D Sands)Ordered SOS Rules and Weak Bisimulation (I Phillips & I Ulidowksi)and other papers Readership: Graduate students and researchers in computer science.

Author : Gerard O'Regan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319640211

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Concise Guide to Formal Methods by Gerard O'Regan Pdf

This invaluable textbook/reference provides an easy-to-read guide to the fundamentals of formal methods, highlighting the rich applications of formal methods across a diverse range of areas of computing. Topics and features: introduces the key concepts in software engineering, software reliability and dependability, formal methods, and discrete mathematics; presents a short history of logic, from Aristotle’s syllogistic logic and the logic of the Stoics, through Boole’s symbolic logic, to Frege’s work on predicate logic; covers propositional and predicate logic, as well as more advanced topics such as fuzzy logic, temporal logic, intuitionistic logic, undefined values, and the applications of logic to AI; examines the Z specification language, the Vienna Development Method (VDM) and Irish School of VDM, and the unified modelling language (UML); discusses Dijkstra’s calculus of weakest preconditions, Hoare’s axiomatic semantics of programming languages, and the classical approach of Parnas and his tabular expressions; provides coverage of automata theory, probability and statistics, model checking, and the nature of proof and theorem proving; reviews a selection of tools available to support the formal methodist, and considers the transfer of formal methods to industry; includes review questions and highlights key topics in every chapter, and supplies a helpful glossary at the end of the book. This stimulating guide provides a broad and accessible overview of formal methods for students of computer science and mathematics curious as to how formal methods are applied to the field of computing.

Author : Abbas Edalat,Sofia Jourdan,Guy McCusker,Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. Workshop,Imperial College of Science and Technology. Department of Computing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computer science
ISBN : OCLC:503699742

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Advances in Theory and Formal Methods of Computing 1996 by Abbas Edalat,Sofia Jourdan,Guy McCusker,Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. Workshop,Imperial College of Science and Technology. Department of Computing Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computer science
ISBN : OCLC:503699742

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Advances in Theory and Formal Methods of Computing 1996 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jiacun Wang
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781498775359

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Formal Methods in Computer Science by Jiacun Wang Pdf

This textbook gives students a comprehensive introduction to formal methods and their application in software and hardware specification and verification. It has three parts: The first part introduces some fundamentals in formal methods, including set theory, functions, finite state machines, and regular expressions. The second part focuses on logi

Author : Marco Bernardo,Erik de Vink,Alessandra Di Pierro,Herbert Wiklicky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642388743

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Formal Methods for Dynamical Systems by Marco Bernardo,Erik de Vink,Alessandra Di Pierro,Herbert Wiklicky Pdf

This book presents 5 tutorial lectures given by leading researchers at the 13th edition of the International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication and Software Systems, SFM 2013, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in June 2013. SFM 2013 was devoted to dynamical systems and covered several topics including chaotic dynamics; information theory; systems biology; hybrid systems; quantum computing; and automata-based models and model checking.

Author : Constantin Enea,Akash Lal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031377037

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Computer Aided Verification by Constantin Enea,Akash Lal Pdf

The open access proceedings set LNCS 13964, 13965, 13966 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2023, which was held in Paris, France, in July 2023. The 67 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 261 submissions. The have been organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Automata and logic; concurrency; cyber-physical and hybrid systems; synthesis; Part II: Decision procedures; model checking; neural networks and machine learning; Part II: Probabilistic systems; security and quantum systems; software verification.

Author : Timothy T.R. Colburn,J.H. Fetzer,R.L. Rankin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789401117937

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Program Verification by Timothy T.R. Colburn,J.H. Fetzer,R.L. Rankin Pdf

Among the most important problems confronting computer science is that of developing a paradigm appropriate to the discipline. Proponents of formal methods - such as John McCarthy, C.A.R. Hoare, and Edgar Dijkstra - have advanced the position that computing is a mathematical activity and that computer science should model itself after mathematics. Opponents of formal methods - by contrast, suggest that programming is the activity which is fundamental to computer science and that there are important differences that distinguish it from mathematics, which therefore cannot provide a suitable paradigm. Disagreement over the place of formal methods in computer science has recently arisen in the form of renewed interest in the nature and capacity of program verification as a method for establishing the reliability of software systems. A paper that appeared in Communications of the ACM entitled, `Program Verification: The Very Idea', by James H. Fetzer triggered an extended debate that has been discussed in several journals and that has endured for several years, engaging the interest of computer scientists (both theoretical and applied) and of other thinkers from a wide range of backgrounds who want to understand computer science as a domain of inquiry. The editors of this collection have brought together many of the most interesting and important studies that contribute to answering questions about the nature and the limits of computer science. These include early papers advocating the mathematical paradigm by McCarthy, Naur, R. Floyd, and Hoare (in Part I), others that elaborate the paradigm by Hoare, Meyer, Naur, and Scherlis and Scott (in Part II), challenges, limits and alternatives explored by C. Floyd, Smith, Blum, and Naur (in Part III), and recent work focusing on formal verification by DeMillo, Lipton, and Perlis, Fetzer, Cohn, and Colburn (in Part IV). It provides essential resources for further study. This volume will appeal to scientists, philosophers, and laypersons who want to understand the theoretical foundations of computer science and be appropriately positioned to evaluate the scope and limits of the discipline.

Author : C. Neville Dean,Raymond T. Boute
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540304722

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Teaching Formal Methods by C. Neville Dean,Raymond T. Boute Pdf

“Professional engineers can often be distinguished from other designers by the engineers’ ability to use mathematical models to describe and 1 analyze their products.” This observation by Parnas describes the de facto professional standards in all classical engineering disciplines (civil, mechanical, electrical, etc.). Unf- tunately, it is in sharp contrast with current (industrial) practice in software design, where mathematical models are hardly used at all, even by those who, 2 in Holloway’s words “aspire to be engineers.” The rare exceptions are certain critical applications, where mathematical techniques are used under the general name formal methods. Yet,thesamecharacteristicsthatmakeformalmethodsanecessityincritical applicationsmakethemalsoadvantageousineverydaysoftwaredesignatvarious levels from design e?ciency to software quality. Why, then, is education failing with respect to formal methods? – failing to convince students, academics and practitioners alike that formal methods are truly pragmatic; – failing to overcome a phobia of formality and mathematics; – failing to provide students with the basic skills and understanding required toadoptamoremathematicalandlogicalapproachtosoftwaredevelopment. Until education takes these failings seriously, formal methods will be an obscure byway in software engineering, which in turn will remain severely impoverished as a result.

Author : Frank S. de Boer,Marcello M. Bonsangue,Susanne Graf,Willem-Paul de Roever
Publisher : Springer
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540301011

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Formal Methods for Components and Objects by Frank S. de Boer,Marcello M. Bonsangue,Susanne Graf,Willem-Paul de Roever Pdf

Formal methods have been applied successfully to the verification of medium-sized programs in protocol and hardware design. However, their application to more complex systems, resulting from the object-oriented and the more recent component-based software engineering paradigms, requires further development of specification and verification techniques supporting the concepts of reusability and modifiability. This book presents revised tutorial lectures given by invited speakers at the Second International Symposium on Formal Methods for Components and Objects, FMCO 2003, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in November 2003. The 17 revised lectures by leading researchers present a comprehensive account of the potential of formal methods applied to large and complex software systems such as component-based systems and object systems. The book makes a unique contribution to bridging the gap between theory and practice in software engineering.

Author : Gheorghe Paun,Grzegorz Rozenberg,Arto Salomaa
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789814492058

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Current Trends In Theoretical Computer Science - Entering The 21st Century by Gheorghe Paun,Grzegorz Rozenberg,Arto Salomaa Pdf

The scientific developments at the end of the past millennium were dominated by the huge increase and diversity of disciplines with the common label “computer science”. The theoretical foundations of such disciplines have become known as theoretical computer science. This book highlights some key issues of theoretical computer science as they seem to us now, at the beginning of the new millennium.The text is based on columns and tutorials published in the Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science in the period 1995-2000. The columnists themselves selected the material they wanted for the book, and the editors had a chance to update their work. Indeed, much of the material presented here appears in a form quite different from the original. Since the presentation of most of the articles is reader-friendly and does not presuppose much knowledge of the area, the book constitutes suitable supplementary reading material for various courses in computer science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780128122297

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Advances in Computers by Anonim Pdf

Advances in Computers, Volume 107, the latest volume in a series published since 1960, presents detailed coverage of innovations in computer hardware, software, theory, design and applications. Chapters in this updated volume include Advances in Model-based Analysis and Testing, Advances in Software Quality Assurance, Advances in Handling Uncertainty in Testing, Advances in Testing of Communicating Systems, and Advances in Formal Verification and Cyber-physical Systems. This book provides contributors with a medium in which they can explore their subjects in greater depth and breadth than journal articles usually allow. Provides in-depth surveys and tutorials on new computer technology Presents well-known authors and researchers in the field Includes extensive bibliographies with most chapters Volumes are devoted to single themes or subfields of computer science

Author : C. Neville Dean,Michael G. Hinchey
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0123490405

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Teaching and Learning Formal Methods by C. Neville Dean,Michael G. Hinchey Pdf

As computer systems continue to advance, the positions they hold in human society continue to gain power. Computers now control the flight of aircraft, the cooling systems in chemical plants, and feedback loops in nuclear reactors. Because of the vital roles these systems play, there has been growing concern about the reliability and safety of these advanced computers. Formal methods are now widely recognized as the most successful means of assuring the reliability of complex computer systems. Because formal methods are being mandated in more and more international standards, it is critical that engineers, managers, and industrial project leaders are well trained and conversant in the application of these methods. This book covers a broad range of issues relating to the pedagogy of formal methods. The contributors, all acknowledged experts, have based their contributions on extensive experiences teaching and applying formal methods in both academia and industry.The two editors, both well known in this area, propose various techniques that can help to dismiss myths that formal methods are difficult to use and hard to learn. Teaching and Learning Formal Methods will be an indispensable text for educators in the fields of computer science, mathematics, software engineering, and electronic engineering as well as to management and product leaders concerned with trainingrecent graduates. Offers proven methods for teaching formal methods, even to students who lack a strong background in mathematics Addresses the important role that formal methods play in society and considers their growing future potential Includes contributions from several pioneers in the area Features a foreword written by Edsger W. Dijkstra

Author : Li, Zhiwu
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466640351

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Formal Methods in Manufacturing Systems: Recent Advances by Li, Zhiwu Pdf

Evolving technologies in mass production have led to the development of advanced techniques in the field of manufacturing. These technologies can quickly and effectively respond to various market changes, necessitating processes that focus on small batches of multiple products rather than large, single-product lines. Formal Methods in Manufacturing Systems: Recent Advances explores this shifting paradigm through an investigation of contemporary manufacturing techniques and formal methodologies that strive to solve a variety of issues arising from a market environment that increasingly favors flexible systems over traditional ones. This book will be of particular use to industrial engineers and students of the field who require a detailed understanding of current trends and developments in manufacturing tools. This book is part of the Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering series collection.

Author : Marco Bernardo,Flavio Corradini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540300809

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Formal Methods for the Design of Real-Time Systems by Marco Bernardo,Flavio Corradini Pdf

A large class of computing systems can be specified and verified by abstracting away from the temporal aspects of their behavior. In real-time systems,instead, time issues become essential. Their correctness depends not only on which functions they can perform, but also on the action execution time. Due to their importance and design challenges, real-time systems have attracted the attention of a considerable number of computer scientists and engineers from various research areas. This volume collects a set of papers accompanying the lectures of the fourth edition of the International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication and Software Systems (SFM). The school addressed the use of formal methods in computer science as a prominent approach to the r- orous design of computer, communication and software systems. The main aim of the SFM series is to o?er a good spectrum of current research in foundations as well as applications of formal methods, which can be of help for graduate students and young researchers who intend to approach the field. SFM-04:RT was devoted to real-time systems. It covered formal models and languages for the specification,modeling,analysis,and verification of the seti- critical systems, the expressiveness of such models and languages, as well as supporting tools and related applications in different domains.