Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 7th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2005, Manchester, UK, November 1-4, 2005, Proceedings

by Kung-Kiu Lau (Editor), Richard Banach (Editor)

Overview

This volume contains papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2005), 1-4 November 2005, Manchester, UK. Formal engineering methods are changing the way that systems are dev- oped. With language and tool support, these methods are being used for se- automatic code generation, and for the automatic abstraction and checking of implementations. In the future, they will be used at every stage of development: requirements, speci?cation, design, implementation, testing, anddocumentation. The aim of ICFEM 2005 was to bring together those interested in the - plication of formal engineering methods to computer systems. Researchers and practitioners, from industry, academia, and government, were encouraged to - tend, and to help advance the state of the art. The conference was supported by sponsorships from Microsoft Research, USA, the Software Engineers Association of Japan, the University of Man- ester, Manchester City Council, FormalMethods Europe (FME) and the British Computer Society FormalAspects ofComputing Specialist Group(BCS-FACS). We wish to thank these sponsors for their generosity. The ?nal programme consisted of 3 invited talks and 30 technical papers selected from a total of 74 submissions. The invited speakers were: Anthony Hall, independent consultant, UK; Egon B] orger, University of Pisa, Italy; John Rushby, SRI, USA. Their talks were sponsored by BCS-FACS, Microsoft - search and FME respectively. We wish to thank the invited speakers for their inspiring talks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540297970
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/14/2005
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #3785
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	502
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.98(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Invited Talks.- Realising the Benefits of Formal Methods.- A Compositional Framework for Service Interaction Patterns and Interaction Flows.- An Evidential Tool Bus.- Specification.- Derivation of UML Class Diagrams as Static Views of Formal B Developments.- 29 New Unclarities in the Semantics of UML 2.0 State Machines.- The Semantics and Tool Support of OZTA.- Modelling.- An Abstract Model for Process Mediation.- How Symbolic Animation Can Help Designing an Efficient Formal Model.- Security.- A Theory of Secure Control Flow.- Game Semantics Model for Security Prools.- Communication.- Towards Dynamically Communicating Abstract Machines in the B Method.- Sweep-Line Analysis of TCP Connection Management.- 2/3 Alternating Simulation Between Interface Automata.- Development.- Formal Model-Driven Development of Communicating Systems.- Jahuel: A Formal Framework for Software Synthesis.- Modelling and Refinement of an On-Chip Communication Architecture.- Testing.- Finding Bugs in Network Prools Using Simulation Code and Prool-Specific Heuristics.- Adaptive Random Testing by Bisection with Restriction.- Testing Real-Time Multi Input-Output Systems.- Verification.- Formal Verification of a Memory Model for C-Like Imperative Languages.- Symbolic Verification of Distributed Real-Time Systems with Complex Synchronizations.- An Improved Rule for While Loops in Deductive Program Verification.- Using Stålmarck’s Algorithm to Prove Inequalities.- Automatic Refinement Checking for B.- Slicing an Integrated Formal Method for Verification.- A Static Communication Elimination Algorithm for Distributed System Verification.- Incremental Verification of Owicki/Gries Proof Outlines Using PVS.- Using Three-Valued Logic to Specify and Verify Algorithms of Computational Geometry.-Tools.- An Automated Approach to Specification-Based Program Inspection.- Visualizing and Simulating Semantic Web Services Ontologies.- A Model-to-Implementation Mapping Tool for Automated Model-Based GUI Testing.- ClawZ: Cost-Effective Formal Verification for Control Systems.- SVG Web Environment for Z Specification Language.