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Formal Methods and Software Engineering

Lau, Kung-Kiu.

Formal Methods and Software Engineering 7th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2005, Manchester, UK, November 1-4, 2005. Proceedings / [electronic resource] : edited by Kung-Kiu Lau, Richard Banach. - XIV, 496 p. Also available online. online resource. - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3785 0302-9743 ; . - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3785 .

Invited Talks -- Realising the Benefits of Formal Methods -- A Compositional Framework for Service Interaction Patterns and Interaction Flows -- An Evidential Tool Bus -- Specification -- Derivation of UML Class Diagrams as Static Views of Formal B Developments -- 29 New Unclarities in the Semantics of UML 2.0 State Machines -- The Semantics and Tool Support of OZTA -- Modelling -- An Abstract Model for Process Mediation -- How Symbolic Animation Can Help Designing an Efficient Formal Model -- Security -- A Theory of Secure Control Flow -- Game Semantics Model for Security Protocols -- Communication -- Towards Dynamically Communicating Abstract Machines in the B Method -- Sweep-Line Analysis of TCP Connection Management -- 2/3 Alternating Simulation Between Interface Automata -- Development -- Formal Model-Driven Development of Communicating Systems -- Jahuel: A Formal Framework for Software Synthesis -- Modelling and Refinement of an On-Chip Communication Architecture -- Testing -- Finding Bugs in Network Protocols Using Simulation Code and Protocol-Specific Heuristics -- Adaptive Random Testing by Bisection with Restriction -- Testing Real-Time Multi Input-Output Systems -- Verification -- Formal Verification of a Memory Model for C-Like Imperative Languages -- Symbolic Verification of Distributed Real-Time Systems with Complex Synchronizations -- An Improved Rule for While Loops in Deductive Program Verification -- Using Stålmarck’s Algorithm to Prove Inequalities -- Automatic Refinement Checking for B -- Slicing an Integrated Formal Method for Verification -- A Static Communication Elimination Algorithm for Distributed System Verification -- Incremental Verification of Owicki/Gries Proof Outlines Using PVS -- Using Three-Valued Logic to Specify and Verify Algorithms of Computational Geometry -- Tools -- An Automated Approach to Specification-Based Program Inspection -- Visualizing and Simulating Semantic Web Services Ontologies -- A Model-to-Implementation Mapping Tool for Automated Model-Based GUI Testing -- ClawZ: Cost-Effective Formal Verification for Control Systems -- SVG Web Environment for Z Specification Language.

This volume contains papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2005), 1–4 November 2005, Manchester, UK. Formal engineering methods are changing the way that systems are dev- oped. With language and tool support, these methods are being used for se- automatic code generation, and for the automatic abstraction and checking of implementations. In the future, they will be used at every stage of development: requirements,speci?cation,design,implementation,testing,anddocumentation. The aim of ICFEM 2005 was to bring together those interested in the - plication of formal engineering methods to computer systems. Researchers and practitioners, from industry, academia, and government, were encouraged to - tend, and to help advance the state of the art. The conference was supported by sponsorships from Microsoft Research, USA, the Software Engineers Association of Japan, the University of Man- ester, Manchester City Council, FormalMethods Europe (FME) and the British Computer Society FormalAspects ofComputing Specialist Group(BCS-FACS). We wish to thank these sponsors for their generosity. The ?nal programme consisted of 3 invited talks and 30 technical papers selected from a total of 74 submissions. The invited speakers were: Anthony Hall, independent consultant, UK; Egon B¨ orger, University of Pisa, Italy; John Rushby, SRI, USA. Their talks were sponsored by BCS-FACS, Microsoft - search and FME respectively. We wish to thank the invited speakers for their inspiring talks.

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Computer science.
Software engineering.
Logic design.
Computer Science.
Software Engineering.
Logics and Meanings of Programs.
Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.

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