Integrated formal methods : 5th international conference, IFM 2005, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, November 29--December 2, 2005 : proceedings / Judi Romijn, Graeme Smith, Jaco van de Pol (eds.).

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Invited Papers -- A Family of Mathematical Methods for Professional Software Documentation -- Generating Path Conditions for Timed Systems -- Software Model Checking: Searching for Computations in the Abstract or the Concrete -- Session: Components -- Adaptive Techniques for Specification Matching in Embedded Systems: A Comparative Study -- Session: State/Event-Based Verification -- State/Event Software Verification for Branching-Time Specifications -- Exp. Open 2.0: A Flexible Tool Integrating Partial Order, Compositional, and On-The-Fly Verification Methods -- Chunks: Component Verification in CSP? B -- Session: System Development -- Agile Formal Method Engineering -- An Automated Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Based on High-Level Design Specification with Behavior Trees -- Enabling Security Testing from Specification to Code -- Session: Applications of B -- Development of Fault Tolerant Grid Applications Using Distributed B -- Formal Methods Meet Domain Specific Languages -- Synthesizing B Specifications from eb 3 Attribute Definitions -- Session: Tool Support -- CZT Support for Z Extensions -- Embedding the Stable Failures Model of CSP in PVS -- Model-Based Prototyping of an Interoperability Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks -- Session: Non-software Domains -- Translating Hardware Process Algebras into Standard Process Algebras: Illustration with CHP and LOTOS -- Formalising Interactive Voice Services with SDL -- Session: Semantics -- A Fixpoint Semantics of Event Systems With and Without Fairness Assumptions -- Session: UML and Statecharts -- Consistency Checking of Sequence Diagrams and Statechart Diagrams Using the?-Calculus -- An Integrated Framework for Scenarios and State Machines -- Consistency in UML and B Multi-view Specifications.

This is the 5th edition of the International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods (IFM). Previous IFM conferences were held in York (June 1999), D- stuhl (November 2000), Turku (May 2002) and Canterbury (April 2004). This year's IFM was held in December 2005 on the campus of the Technische Univ- siteit Eindhoven in The Netherlands. This year IFM received 40 submissions, from which 19 high-quality papers wereselectedbytheProgramCommittee. Besidesthese, theproceedingscontain invited contributions by Patrice Godefroid, David Parnas and Doron Peled. It was 10 years ago that Jonathan P. Bowen and Michael G. Hinchey p- lished their famous Ten Commandments of Formal Methods in IEEE Computer 28(4). Their very?rst commandment -- Thou shalt choose an appropriate - tation -- touches the heart of the IFM theme: Complex systems have di?erent aspects, and each aspect requires its own appropriate notation. Classical examples of models for various aspects are: state based notations andalgebraicdatatypesfordata, processalgebrasandtemporallogicsforbeh- ior, duration calculus and timed automata for timing aspects, etc. The central question is how the models of di?erent notations relate. Recently, Bowen and Hinchey presented their Ten Commandments Revisited (in: ACM proceedings of the 10th InternationalWorkshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical S- tems). Theydistinghuishvariationsin combiningnotations, rangingfromloosely coupled viewpoints to integrated methods. Thelooselycoupledviewpointsarequitepopular(cf.thesuccessofUML)and are easy to adopt in a leightweight process. They could be useful for specifying and analyzing isolated system aspects. However, the main advantage of formal methods -- being able to specify and verify the correctness of complete systems --islost.

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