Formal Methods and Hybrid Real-Time Systems

Essays in Honour of Dines Bjorner and Zhou Chaochen on the Occasion of Their 70th Birthdays
2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-75220-2
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, 542 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 838 g

Reihe: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues

This Festschrift volume is published to honour both Dines Bjørner and Zhou Chaochen on the occasion of their 70th birthdays. The volume includes 25 refereed papers by leading researchers, current and former colleagues, who congregated at a celebratory symposium held in Macao, China, in the course of the International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2007. The papers cover a broad spectrum of subjects.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Cliff B.

Woodcock, Jim

Liu, Zhiming

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Logik, formale Sprachen, Automaten
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering Modellierung, UML, SysML

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Models and Software Model Checking of a Distributed File Replication System.- From “Formal Methods” to System Modeling.- A Denotational Semantics for Handel-C.- Generating Polynomial Invariants with DISCOVERER and QEPCAD.- Harnessing rCOS for Tool Support —The CoCoME Experience.- Automating Verification of Cooperation, Control, and Design in Traffic Applications.- Specifying Various Time Models with Temporal Propositional Variables in Duration Calculus.- Relating Domain Concepts Intensionally by Ordering Connections.- Programmable Messaging for Electronic Government - Building a Foundation.- Balancing Insight and Effort: The Industrial Uptake of Formal Methods.- Proving Theorems About JML Classes.- Specification for Testing.- Semantics and Verification of a Language for Modelling Hardware Architectures.- A Domain-Oriented, Model-Based Approach for Construction and Verification of Railway Control Systems.- Compensable Programs.- Deriving Specifications for Systems That Are Connected to the Physical World.- Engineering the Development of Embedded Systems.- Design Verification Patterns.- On Revival of Algol-Concepts in Modern Programming and Specification Languages.- Design in CommUnity with Extension Morphisms.- Symbolic Test Generation Using a Temporal Logic with Constrained Events.- Expansive-Bisimulation for Context-Free Processes.- VDM Semantics of Programming Languages: Combinators and Monads.- Formal Approach to Railway Applications.- Services as a Paradigm of Computation.