Einar Broch Johnsen – författare

After positions at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Chalmers University of Technology, since 2011 Reiner has been the chaired professor of Software Engineering at Technische Universität Darmstadt, where his team focuses on the formal verification of object-oriented software, the formal modeling and specification of highly adaptive software systems, and formal modeling and analysis in domains such as biological systems and railroad operations. His work is characterized by achievements in theory and in practical implementations, significant collaborations include the KeY project and the development of the ABS language. He has served as chair and editor of important related academic conferences, and coauthored almost 200 academic publications.

The contributions in this volume reflect Reiner’s main research focus: formal methods, in particular applied to software verification.

This book presents 8 tutorial lectures given by leading researchers at the 14th edition of the International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication and Software Systems, SFM 2014, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in June 2014.

SFM 2014 was devoted to executable software models and covered topics such as variability models, automated analysis techniques, deductive verification, and runtime assessment and testing. The papers collected in the two parts (first part: modeling and verification; second part: run-time assessment and testing) of this volume represent the broad range of topics of the school.

This Festschrift volume has been published in honor ofFrank de Boer, on the occasion of his 60th birthday.Frank S. de Boer is a prominent member of the research community in formalmethods and theoretical computer science. A brief look at his lengthypublication list reveals a broad area of interest and a versatile modusoperandi with: logic and constraint programming; deductive proof systems,soundness, and completeness; semantics, compositionality, and full abstraction;process algebra and decidability; multithreading and actor-based concurrency;agent programming, ontologies, and modal logic; real-time systems, timedautomata, and schedulability; enterprise architectures, choreography, andcoordination; testing and runtime monitoring; and cloud computing and service-levelagreements. For a while, he also liked failures, especially in semantics, andoptimistically concluded with the failure of failures. In fact, Frank has anopportunistic approach to research. Rather than seeing obstacles, he findsopportunities.

The 9 full papers and 1 invited paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The TAP conference promotes research in verification and formal methods that targets the interplay of proofs and testing: the advancement of techniques of each kind and their combination, with the ultimate goal of improving software and system dependability.

The 6 short and 10 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The volume also contains one invited talk in full paper length. The contributions were organized in topical sections named: microservices and containers; security; cloud resources; services; internet of things and data streams; and industrial applications of service and cloud computing. 

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2018, held as part of STAF 2018, in Toulouse, France, in June 2018. The 17 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers deal with a large range of topics in the following research areas: specification; concurrency; program analysis; model checking and runtime verification; applications; and shape analysis and reuse.