Formal Methods: State of the Art and New Directions

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Boca, Paul (Editor), Bowen, Jonathan P. (Editor), Siddiqi, Jawed (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Mathematical logic.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Software Engineering.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.

The last decade has witnessed a modest but sustained increase in researching and applying formal methods. A number of well cited success stories are now available and provide strong evidence that formal methods can be effective and deployed in industrial-scale applications. Through fundamental contr...

Table of Contents:

• Domain Engineering
• Program Verification and System Dependability
• The Abstract State Machines Method for High-Level System Design and Analysis
• Applications and Methodology of ?Z
• The Computer Ate My Vote
• Formal Methods for Biochemical Signalling Pathways
• Separation Logic and Concurrency
• Programming Language Description Languages.