Fundamental approaches to software engineering : 7th international conference, FASE 2004, held as part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2004, Barcelona, Spain, March 29-April 2, 2004 : proceedings / Michel Wermelinger, Tiziana Margaria-Steffen (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2004, held in Barcelona, Spain, in March/April 2004. The 22 revised full papers and 4 tool presentation papers presented together with an invited paper and the abstract of another invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 98 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on objects and aspects, smart cards, components, security and web services, modeling and requirements, testing, and model checking and analysis.

Invited Contributions -- Distributed Information Management with XML and Web Services -- A Formal Treatment of Context-Awareness -- Objects and Aspects -- Consistent Adaptation and Evolution of Class Diagrams during Refinement -- Measuring Aspect Cohesion -- Refactoring Object-Z Specifications -- Smart Cards -- Checking Absence of Illicit Applet Interactions: A Case Study -- A Tool-Assisted Framework for Certified Bytecode Verification -- Reasoning about Card Tears and Transactions in Java Card -- Components I -- Predictable Dynamic Plugin Systems -- A Correlation Framework for the CORBA Component Model -- Cadena: An Integrated Development Environment for Analysis, Synthesis, and Verification of Component-Based Systems -- Security and Web Services -- Actor-Centric Modeling of User Rights -- Modeling Role-Based Access Control Using Parameterized UML Models -- Compositional Nested Long Running Transactions -- DaGen: A Tool for Automatic Translation from DAML-S to High-Level Petri Nets -- Modeling and Requirements -- Integrating Meta-modelling Aspects with Graph Transformation for Efficient Visual Language Definition and Model Manipulation -- An Operational Semantics for Stateflow -- Improving Use Case Based Requirements Using Formally Grounded Specifications -- The GOPCSD Tool: An Integrated Development Environment for Process Control Requirements and Design -- Testing -- Automated Debugging Using Path-Based Weakest Preconditions -- Filtering TOBIAS Combinatorial Test Suites -- Systematic Testing of Software Architectures in the C2 Style -- Model Checking and Analysis -- Optimising Communication Structure for Model Checking -- Translating Software Designs for Model Checking -- Enhancing Remote Method Invocation through Type-Based Static Analysis -- Specification and Analysis of Real-Time Systems Using Real-Time Maude -- Components II -- A Systematic Methodology for Developing Component Frameworks -- Automating Decisions in Component Composition Based on Propagation of Requirements.

English.