Anton Wijs - Böcker

This book constitutes the thoroughly revised selected papers from the 17th International Symposium, FACS 2021, which was hel virtually in October 2021. The 7 full papers and 1 short contribution were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions and are presented in the volume together with 1 invited paper.

This textbook overviews the whole spectrum of formal methods and techniques that are aimed at verifying correctness of software, and how they can be used in practice. It focuses on techniques whereby the user has some control over the properties that are being checked. More specifically, it shows a wide range of techniques covering the whole spectrum:  from abstract system design to implementation, from bug finding to full proofs, and from techniques that are push-button by design and give a yes/no answer to techniques that require the user to provide explicit guidance to steer the analysis process.Topics and features:Covers a broad spectrum of software verification techniques, from model checking to annotation checkingProvides numerous examples to demonstrate the techniquesFocuses on how techniques can be used (and the main ideas behind how they work), as opposed to how they are implementedExplainsstrengths and weaknesses of the techniques, providing insight into when to use which technique in practiceThis unique textbook has been written primarily for master’s level students in computer science studying embedded systems and specializing in software technology. The book will also be of interest for students studying cyber security and data science technology, as well as for system or software developers interested in techniques that offer formal guarantees about software.

This textbook overviews the whole spectrum of formal methods and techniques that are aimed at verifying correctness of software, and how they can be used in practice. It focuses on techniques whereby the user has some control over the properties that are being checked. More specifically, it shows a wide range of techniques covering the whole spectrum:  from abstract system design to implementation, from bug finding to full proofs, and from techniques that are push-button by design and give a yes/no answer to techniques that require the user to provide explicit guidance to steer the analysis process.Topics and features:Covers a broad spectrum of software verification techniques, from model checking to annotation checkingProvides numerous examples to demonstrate the techniquesFocuses on how techniques can be used (and the main ideas behind how they work), as opposed to how they are implementedExplainsstrengths and weaknesses of the techniques, providing insight into when to use which technique in practiceThis unique textbook has been written primarily for master’s level students in computer science studying embedded systems and specializing in software technology. The book will also be of interest for students studying cyber security and data science technology, as well as for system or software developers interested in techniques that offer formal guarantees about software.

This volume LNCS 14300 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference, IFM 2023, in November 2023, held in Leiden, The Netherlands.   The 16 full papers presented together with 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The conference focuses on all aspects of the design of integrated techniques, including language design, verification and validation, automated tool support, and the use of such techniques in software engineering practice.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Model Checking Software, SPIN 2024, held in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, during April 10-11, 2024. The 9 full papers, 3 short papers and 2 invited papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions.