Antonio Cerone – författare

Software programs are formal entities with precise meanings independent of their programmers, so the transition from ideas to programs necessarily involves a formalisation at some point.

The first part of this graduate-level introduction to formal methods develops an understanding of what constitutes formal methods and what their place is in Software Engineering. It also introduces logics as languages to describe reasoning and the process algebra CSP as a language to represent behaviours. The second part offers specification and testing methods for formal development of software, based on the modelling languages CASL and UML. The third part takes the reader into the application domains of normative documents, human machine interfaces, and security.  Use of notations and formalisms is uniform throughout the book.

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Suitable for graduate and undergraduate courses in software engineering, this uniquely practical textbook will also be of value to students in informatics, as well as to scientists and practical engineers,  who want to learn about or work more effectively with formal theories and methods.

Markus Roggenbach is a Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science of Swansea University. Antonio Cerone is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science of Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan. Bernd-Holger Schlingloff is a Professor in the Institut für Informatik of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Gerardo Schneider is a Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering of University of Gothenburg. Siraj Ahmed Shaikh is a Professor in the Institute for Future Transport and Cities of Coventry University.

The companion site for the book offers additional resources, including further material for selected chapters, prepared lab classes, a list of errata, slides and teaching material, and virtual machines with preinstalled tools and resources for hands-on experience with examples from the book. The URL is: https://sefm-book.github.io

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 23rd Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2019, held in Porto, Portugal, in October 2019. This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: Third Workshop on Practical Formal Verification for Software Dependability, AFFORD 2019; 8th International Symposium From Data to Models and Back, DataMod 2019; First Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems Workshop, FMAS 2019; First Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains, FMBC 2019; 8th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Interactive Systems, FMIS 2019; First History of Formal Methods Workshop, HFM 2019; 8th International Workshop on Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains, NSAD 2019; 9th International Workshop on Open Community Approaches to Education, Research and Technology, OpenCERT 2019; 17th Overture Workshop, Overture 2019; 19th Refinement Workshop, Refine 2019; First International Workshop on Reversibility in Programming, Languages, and Automata, RPLA 2019; 10th International Workshop on Static Analysis and Systems Biology, SASB 2019; and the 10th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis, TAPAS 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 23rd Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2019, held in Porto, Portugal, in October 2019. This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: Third Workshop on Practical Formal Verification for Software Dependability, AFFORD 2019; 8th International Symposium From Data to Models and Back, DataMod 2019; First Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems Workshop, FMAS 2019; First Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains, FMBC 2019; 8th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Interactive Systems, FMIS 2019; First History of Formal Methods Workshop, HFM 2019; 8th International Workshop on Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains, NSAD 2019; 9th International Workshop on Open Community Approaches to Education, Research and Technology, OpenCERT 2019; 17th Overture Workshop, Overture 2019; 19th Refinement Workshop, Refine 2019; First International Workshop on Reversibility in Programming, Languages, and Automata, RPLA 2019; 10th International Workshop on Static Analysis and Systems Biology, SASB 2019; and the 10th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis, TAPAS 2019.

The 7 revised full papers and 2 revised short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. A white paper and two keynote papers are also included. The papers explore ways of utilizing the pathway to transforming and spreading formal methods. The vision of this workshop series is that formal methods ought to be taught in such a way that every student can have fun with it.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2021, organized by the Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. The event was supposed to take place in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, but due to COVID-19 pandemic is was held virtually.

The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The book also contains one invited talk in full paper length. The book deals with challenges in both theoretical aspects of computing and the exploitation of theory through methods and tools for system development. The 20 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers cover a wide variety of topics, including: getting the best price for selling your personal data; attacking Bitcoin; optimizing various forms of model checking; synthesizing and learning algorithms; formalizing and verifying contracts, languages,and compilers; analyzing the correctness and complexity of programs and distributed systems; and finding connections from proofs in propositional logic to quantum programming languages.

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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on From Data to Models and Back, DataMod 2023, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands during November 6–7, 2023.

 The 8 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: domain-specific modeling and analysis; system biology; formal methods in healthcare; and natural language processing.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the five workshops collocated with the 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2017.

The 38 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 55 submissions. They stem from the following workshops:

DataMod 2017 -- 6th International Symposium “From Data to Models and Back"; FAACS 2017 --  1st Workshop on Formal Approaches for Advanced Computing Systems; MSE 2017 -- 1st Workshop on Microservices: Science and Engineering; CoSim-CPS 2017 -- 1st Workshop on Formal Co-Simulation of Cyber-Physical Systems; FOCLASA 2017 -- 15th International Workshop on Foundations Of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems​.