Applied Formal Methods Fm Trends 98

Author : Dieter Hutter,Werner Stephan,Paolo Traverso,Markus Ullmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540482574

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Applied Formal Methods - FM-Trends 98 by Dieter Hutter,Werner Stephan,Paolo Traverso,Markus Ullmann Pdf

This volume contains the contributions presented at the International Workshop on Current Trends in Applied Formal Methods organized October 7-9, 1998, in Boppard, Germany. The main objective of the workshop was to draw a map of the key issues facing the practical application of formal methods in industry. This appears to be particularly timely with safety and security issues becoming a real obstacle to industrial software and hardware development. As a consequence, almost all major companies have now set up departments or groups to work with formal methods and many European countries face a severe labour shortage in this new field. Tony Hoare's prediction of the art of software (and hardware) development becoming a proper engineering science with its own body of tools and techniques is now becoming a reality. So the focus of this application oriented workshop was not so much on spe cial academic topics but rather on the many practical aspects of this emerging new technology: verification and validation, and tool support and integration into the software life-cycle. By evaluating the state of the art with respect to industrial applications a discussion emerged among scientists, practising engi neers, and members of regulatory and funding agencies about future needs and developments. This discussion lead to roadmaps with respect to the future of this field, to tool support, and potential application areas and promising market segments. The contributions of the participants from industry as well as from the respective national security bureaus were particularly valuable and highly appreciated.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:232894743

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החוזרים בתשובה by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Formal methods (Computer science)
ISBN : UOM:39015048229713

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Applied Formal Methods--FM-trends ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeannette M. Wing,Jim Woodcook,Jim Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540481188

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FM'99 - Formal Methods by Jeannette M. Wing,Jim Woodcook,Jim Davies Pdf

Formal methods are coming of age. Mathematical techniques and tools are now regarded as an important part of the development process in a wide range of industrial and governmental organisations. A transfer of technology into the mainstream of systems development is slowly, but surely, taking place. FM’99, the First World Congress on Formal Methods in the Development of Computing Systems, is a result, and a measure, of this new-found maturity. It brings an impressive array of industrial and applications-oriented papers that show how formal methods have been used to tackle real problems. These proceedings are a record of the technical symposium ofFM’99:alo- side the papers describingapplicationsofformalmethods,youwill ndtechnical reports,papers,andabstracts detailing new advances in formaltechniques,from mathematical foundations to practical tools. The World Congress is the successor to the four Formal Methods Europe Symposia, which in turn succeeded the four VDM Europe Symposia. This s- cession re?ects an increasing openness within the international community of researchers and practitioners: papers were submitted covering a wide variety of formal methods and application areas. The programmecommittee re?ects the Congress’s international nature, with a membership of 84 leading researchersfrom 38 di erent countries.The comm- tee was divided into 19 tracks, each with its own chair to oversee the reviewing process. Our collective task was a di cult one: there were 259 high-quality s- missions from 35 di erent countries.

Author : C. Neville Dean,Raymond T. Boute
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Bernhard K. Aichernig,Tom Maibaum
Publisher : Springer
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540400073

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Formal Methods at the Crossroads. From Panacea to Foundational Support by Bernhard K. Aichernig,Tom Maibaum Pdf

This volume is devoted to the 10th Anniversary Colloquium of UNU/IIST, the International Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University, as well as to the memory of Armando Haeberer, who passed away while he was working on the preparation of this book in February 2003. The volume starts with a special paper by Tom Maibaum recollecting Armando Haeberer's life and work. The second part presents work done by members of UNU/IIST as well as a paper on the history of the institute. The subsequent topical sections present key contributions by leading researchers and thus assess the state of the art in software engineering and its engineering and scientific principles, from models to software, real-time systems, and verification. All in all, the book is a unique survey of the power and potential of formal methods in software engineering.

Author : Franz Pichler,Roberto Moreno-Diaz,Peter Kopacek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540449317

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Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST'99 by Franz Pichler,Roberto Moreno-Diaz,Peter Kopacek Pdf

Computer Aided Systems Theory (CAST) deals with the task of contributing to the creation and implementation of tools for the support of usual CAD tools for design and simulation by formal mathematical or logical means in modeling. Naturally,thebasisfortheconstructionandimplementationofCASTsoftwareis provided by the existing current knowledge in modeling and by the experience of practitioners in engineering design. Systems Theory, as seen from the viewpoint of CAST research and CAST tool development, has the role of providing formal frameworks and related theoretical knowledge for model-construction and model analysis. We purposely do not distinguish sharply between systems theory and CAST and other similar ?elds of research and tool development such as for example in applied numerical analysis or other computational sciences. TheheredocumentedEUROCASTconferencewhichtookplaceattheVienna University of Technology re?ects current mainstreams in CAST. As in the p- vious conferences new topics, both theoretical and application oriented, have been addressed. The presented papers show that the ?eld is widespread and that new - velopments in computer science and in information technology are the driving forces. Theeditorswouldliketothanktheauthorsforprovidingtheirmanuscriptsin hardcopyandinelectronicformontime.Thesta?ofSpringer-VerlagHeidelberg gave, as in previous CAST publications, valuable support in editing this volume.

Author : Paul Boca,Jonathan P. Bowen,Jawed Siddiqi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781848827363

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Formal Methods: State of the Art and New Directions by Paul Boca,Jonathan P. Bowen,Jawed Siddiqi Pdf

Through fundamental contributions from leading researchers, this volume describes the use of formal modeling methods in the areas of requirements, design and validation. The self-contained chapters provide readers with rich background information and a diverse breadth of specialist material.

Author : Keijiro Araki,Stefania Gnesi,Dion Mandrioli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540452362

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FME 2003: Formal Methods by Keijiro Araki,Stefania Gnesi,Dion Mandrioli Pdf

ThisvolumecontainstheproceedingsofFM2003,the12thInternationalFormal Methods Europe Symposium which was held in Pisa, Italy on September 8–14, 2003. Formal Methods Europe (FME, www. fmeurope. org) is an independent - sociation which aims to stimulate the use of and research on formal methods for system development. FME conferences began with a VDM Europe symposium in 1987. Since then, the meetings have grown and have been held about once - ery 18 months. Throughout the years the symposia have been notably successful in bringing together researchers, tool developers, vendors, and users, both from academia and from industry. Unlike previous symposia in the series, FM 2003 was not given a speci?c theme. Rather, its main goal could be synthesized as “widening the scope. ” Indeed, the organizers aimed at enlarging the audience and impact of the symposium along several directions. Dropping the su?x ‘E’ from the title of the conference re?ects the wish to welcome participation and contribution from every country; also,contributionsfromoutsidethetraditionalFormalMethodscommunitywere solicited. The recent innovation of including an Industrial Day as an important part of the symposium shows the strong commitment to involve industrial p- ple more and more within the Formal Methods community. Even the traditional and rather fuzzy borderline between “software engineering formal methods” and methods and formalisms exploited in di?erent ?elds of engineering was so- what challenged.

Author : Kung-Kiu Lau,Richard Banach
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540297970

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Formal Methods and Software Engineering by Kung-Kiu Lau,Richard Banach Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2005, held in Manchester, UK in November 2005. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers address all current issues in formal methods and their applications in software engineering. They are organized in topical sections on specification, modelling, security, communication, development, testing, verification, and tools.

Author : Reidar Conradi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540671404

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Software Process Technology by Reidar Conradi Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th European Workshop on Software Process Technology, EWSPT 2000, held in Kaprun, Austria in February 2000 in conjunction with a meeting of the European ESPRIT IV Project for Process Instance Evolution (PIE). The 21 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The book is organized in sections on methods, applications, process instance evolution, distributed processes and process modeling languages, and industrial experience.

Author : Susanne Graf,Michael Schwartzbach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540464198

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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems by Susanne Graf,Michael Schwartzbach Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2000, held as part of ETAPS 2000 in Berlin, Germany, in March/April 2000. The 33 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper and two short tool descriptions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 107 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on software and formal methods, formal methods, timed and hybrid systems, infinite and parameterized systems, diagnostic and test generation, efficient model checking, model-checking tools, symbolic model checking, visual tools, and verification of critical systems.

Author : Floor Koornneef,Meine van der Meulen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540408918

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Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security by Floor Koornneef,Meine van der Meulen Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, SAFECOMP 2000, held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands in October 2000.The 33 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on verification and validation; software process improvement; formal methods; safety guidelines, standards and certification; hardware aspects; safety assessment; design for safety; and transport and infrastructure.

Author : Yuri Gurevich,Philipp W. Kutter,Martin Odersky,Lothar Thiele
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540445180

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Abstract State Machines - Theory and Applications by Yuri Gurevich,Philipp W. Kutter,Martin Odersky,Lothar Thiele Pdf

The ASM 2000 workshop was held in the conference center of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) at Monte Verit a, Canton Ticino, March 19-24, 2000. The ASM formalism was proposed together with the thesis that it is suitable to model arbitrary computer systems on arbitrary abstraction levels. ASMs have been successfully used to analyze and specify various hardware and software systems including numerous computer languages. The aim of the workshop was to bring together domain-experts, using ASMs as a practical speci cation method, and theorists working with ASMs and related methods. In addition the workshop served as a forum on theoretical and practical topics that relate to ASMs in a broad sense. Three tutorials including hands-on experience with tools were organized by U. Gl ̈asser and G. del Castillo (on the topic \Specifying Concurrent Systems with ASMs"), H. Russ ̈ and N. Shankar (on the topic \A Tutorial Introduction to PVS"), M. Anlau , P.W. Kutter, and A. Pierantonio (on the topic \Developing Domain Speci c Languages"). In response to the organization committee’s call for papers, 30 papers were submitted, each of which was independently reviewed by four members of the program committee. This volume presents a selection of 12 of the refereed papers and two reports on industrial ASM application at Siemens AG and Microsoft Research, together with contributions based on the invited talks given by A.

Author : Heinrich Rust
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540320081

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Operational Semantics for Timed Systems by Heinrich Rust Pdf

This monograph is dedicated to a novel approach for uniform modelling of timed and hybrid systems. Heinrich Rust presents a time model which allows for both the description of discrete time steps and continuous processes with a dense real-number time model. The proposed time model is well suited to express synchronicity of events in a real-number time model as well as strict causality by using uniform discrete time steps. Thus it integrates and reconciles two views of time that are commonly used separately in di?erent application domains. In many discrete systems time is modelled by discrete steps of uniform length, in continuous systems time is seen as a dense ?ow. Themainideatointegratethesedi?erentviewsisadiscretizationofthedense real-number time structure by using constant in?nitesimal time steps within each real-number point in time. The underlying mathematical structure of this time model is based on concepts of Non-standard Analysis as proposed by Abraham Robinson in the 1950s. The discrete modelling, i.e., the descr- tion of sequential discrete algorithms at di?erent abstraction levels, is done with Abstract State Machines along the formalisms developed by Yuri Gu- vich and temporal logic. These ingredients produce a rich formal basis for describing a large variety of systems with quantitative linear time prop- ties, by seamless integration, re?nement and embedding of continuous and discrete models into one uniform semantic framework called“Non-standard Timed Abstract State Machines”(NTASM).