Formal Methods for an Informal World
Formal Methods for an Informal World

Author: Antonio Cerone

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-11-04

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 3031436784

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This volume includes six lectures given at the ICTAC (International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing) School on Formal Methods for an Informal World, held on September 1-7, 2021, originally scheduled to take place in Astana but held in virtual mode due to the pandemic. The school addressed the use of formal methods at various levels of rigour in different application domains: human-computer interaction, cognitive science, business process management, robotics, and healthcare. The emphasis of the school was on practical applications in which formal methods provide unambiguous descriptions of the real world that facilitate understanding and formal and informal analysis. The target audience consists of graduate students, young researchers and industrial practitioners, from both computer science and other fields that make use of computational methods.

FM 2009: Formal Methods
FM 2009: Formal Methods

Author: Ana Cavalcanti

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-11-04

Total Pages: 836

ISBN-13: 3642050891

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th FM 2009, the 16 International Symposium on Formal Methods, marked the 10th an- versary of the First World Congress on Formal Methods that was held in 1999 in Toulouse, France. We wished to celebrate this by advertising and organizing FM 2009 as the Second World Congress in the FM series, aiming to once again bring together the formal methods communities from all over the world. The statistics displayed in the table on the next page include the number of countries represented by the Programme Committee members, as well as of the authors of submitted and accepted papers. Novel this year was a special track on tools and industrial applications. Subm- sions of papers on these topics were especially encouraged, but not given any special treatment. (It was just as hard to get a special track paper accepted as any other paper.) What we did promote, however, was a discussion of how originality, contri- tion, and soundness should be judged for these papers. The following questions were used by our Programme Committee.

NASA Formal Methods
NASA Formal Methods

Author: Clark Barrett

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-04-08

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 3319572881

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2017, held in Moffett Field, CA, USA, in May 2017. The 23 full and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers focus on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, their theory, current capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems during all stages of the software life-cycle.

The Long Shadow of Informality
The Long Shadow of Informality

Author: Franziska Ohnsorge

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2022-02-09

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1464817545

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A large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies. This may hold back the recovery in these economies from the deep recessions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic--unless governments adopt a broad set of policies to address the challenges of widespread informality. This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the extent of informality and its implications for a durable economic recovery and for long-term development. It finds that pervasive informality is associated with significantly weaker economic outcomes--including lower government resources to combat recessions, lower per capita incomes, greater poverty, less financial development, and weaker investment and productivity.

Formal Methods at the Crossroads. From Panacea to Foundational Support
Formal Methods at the Crossroads. From Panacea to Foundational Support

Author: Bernhard K. Aichernig

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-03-29

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 3540400079

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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.

Industrial-Strength Formal Methods in Practice
Industrial-Strength Formal Methods in Practice

Author: Michael G. Hinchey

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1447105230

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Industrial Strength Formal Methods in Practice provides hands-on experience and guidance for anyone who needs to apply formal methods successfully in an industrial context. Each chapter is written by an expert in software engineering or formal methods, and contains background information, introductions to the techniques being used, actual fragments of formalised components, details of results and an analysis of the overall approach. It provides specific details on how to produce high-quality software that comes in on-time and within budget. Aimed mainly at practitioners in software engineering and formal methods, this book will also be of interest to the following groups; academic researchers working in formal methods who are interested in evidence of their success and in how they can be applied on an industrial scale, and students on advanced software engineering courses who need real-life specifications and examples on which to base their work.

FM'99 - Formal Methods
FM'99 - Formal Methods

Author: Jeannette M. Wing

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-07-31

Total Pages: 955

ISBN-13: 3540481184

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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.

Applied Formal Methods - FM-Trends 98
Applied Formal Methods - FM-Trends 98

Author: Dieter Hutter

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-07-21

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 3540482571

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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.

Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems
Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems

Author: Alberto Lluch Lafuente

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-19

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 3030852482

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems, FMICS 2021, which was held during August 24-26, 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Pairs, France. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic it changed to a virtual event. The 10 full papers and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: Verification, Program Safety and Education, (Event-)B Modeling and Validation, Formal Analysis, Tools, Test Generation and Probabilistic Verification.