Stefania Gnesi - Böcker

Today, formal methods are widely recognized as an essential step in the design process of industrial safety-critical systems. In its more general definition, the term formal methods encompasses all notations having a precise mathematical semantics, together with their associated analysis methods, that allow description and reasoning about the behavior of a system in a formal manner. Growing out of more than a decade of award-winning collaborative work within the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems: A Survey of Applications presents a number of mainstream formal methods currently used for designing industrial critical systems, with a focus on model checking. The purpose of the book is threefold: to reduce the effort required to learn formal methods, which has been a major drawback for their industrial dissemination; to help designers to adopt the formal methods which are most appropriate for their systems; and to offer a panel of state-of-the-art techniques and tools for analyzing critical systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering - Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2020, which was due to be held in Pisa, Italy, in March 2020.

Alessandro Fantechi earned a Laurea Degree in Computer Science from the University of Pisa and a Diploma from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, both in 1978. He has lectured at the University of Florence for decades on the foundations of Computer Science and Software Engineering, where he was also responsible for the curriculum of the PhD school in Information Engineering, coordinator of the Bachelor’s and Master’s curricula in Computer Engineering, and President of the School of Engineering. He has collaborated with CNR-ISTI Pisa, Télécom ParisTech, and the Technical University of Denmark, and he has had many research, teaching, and consulting projects in leading companies and state enterprises.Prof. Fantechi’s main area of research is Software Engineering, in particular the application of formal specification and verification methods in industrial, safety-critical applications such as the railway domain, where he has been a leading practitioner for many years. He has been an active member of the ERCIM working group Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS), he has chaired scientific events such as FMOODS, SPLC, SERENE, RSSRail and VaMoS, he is a member of IFIP WG 6.1, and he is one of the expert members of the Scientific Steering Group of Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking.This volume contains chapters from leading scientists and engineers, their contributions honor an influential researcher, practitioner, and educator.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint 21st International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems and the 16th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems, FMICS-AVoCS 2016, held in Pisa, Italy, in September 2016.The 11 full papers and 4 short papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They are organized in the following sections: automated verification techniques; model-based system analysis; and applications and case studies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2016, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in November 2016. The 38 full papers and 11 short papers presented together with one abstract of an invited talk and one invited presentation were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe, FME 2003, held in Pisa, Italy in September 2003.The 44 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on industrial issues, control systems and applications, communication system verfication, co-specification and compilers, composition, Java, object-orientation and modularity, model checking, parallel processes, program checking and testing, B method, and security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods, IFM 2012, held Pisa, Italy, in June 2012. The 20 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers cover the spectrum of integrated formal methods, ranging from formal and semiformal notations, semantics, proof frameworks, refinement, verification, timed systems, as well as tools and case studies.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Abstract State Machines, B, VDM, and Z, which took place in Pisa, Italy, in June 2012. The 20 full papers presented together with 2 invited talks and 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The ABZ conference series is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of five related state-based and machine-based formal methods: Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, VDM, and Z. They share a common conceptual foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the design and analysis of hardware and software systems. The main goal of this conference series is to contribute to the integration of these formal methods, clarifying their commonalities and differences to better understand how to combine different approaches for accomplishing the various tasks in modeling, experimental validation and mathematical verification of reliable high-quality hardware/software systems.