Formal Methods and Hybrid Real-Time Systems

TRAMA

This Festschrift volume, published to honour both Dines Bj?rner and Zhou Chaochen on the occasion of their 70th birthdays in October and November 2007, 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, from foundational and theoretical topics to algorithms and systems issues and to applications, comprising formal methods, systems modelling, hybrid and real-time systems, specification and verification, as well as interval temporal logic. Dines Bj?rner is known for his many contributions to the theory and practice of formal methods for software engineering with special focus on abstraction and modelling, specification of systems and languages, and domains, requirements, and software design. He was a professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in Lyngby, near Copenhagen; he was the founding director of the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST) in Macao during the 1990s; and a co-founder of VDM-Europe, which became Formal Methods Europe, an organisation that promotes the use of formal methods. Zhou Chaochen is known for his seminal contributions to the theory and practice of timed and hybrid systems. Starting at Peking University and as a postgraduate at the Institute for Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he continued his career with an extended visit to Oxford University Computing Laboratory, where he was the prime instigator of the Duration Calculus, an interval logic for real-time systems. He also worked as a visiting professor at the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, at the invitation of Prof. Dines Bj?rner. He was a principal research fellow at UNU-IIST during the period 1992-97, before becoming its director, an appointment he held from 1997 to 2002.

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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.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783540752202
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: XVI, 542 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 542
• Pagine Romane: xvi