This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2000, held as part of ETAPS 2000 in Berlin, Germany, in March/April 2000.The 21 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions and three system descriptions were carefully reviewed and selected from almost 60 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on real-time systems, ...

A logic-based approach to the design of computing systems would, undoubtedly, offer many advantages over the imperative paradigm most commonly applied so far for programming and hardware design and, consequently, logic, again and again, has been heralded as the basis for the next generation of computer systems. While logic and formal methods are indeed gaining ground in many areas of computer science and artificial intelligence the expected ...

Hardware verification is a hot topic in circuit and system design due to rising circuit complexity. This advanced textbook presents an almost complete overview of techniques for hardware verification. It covers all approaches used in existing tools, such as binary and word-level decision diagrams, symbolic methods for equivalence checking, and temporal logic model checking, and introduces the use of higher-order logic theorem proving for ...

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of formal methods for students and practitioners. It strikes a careful balance between rigorous exposition of the underlying mathematics and concrete examples of implementations using real-life tools, thus making it easy to grasp the underlying concepts and theories. It does not aim to provide guidelines for using a particular method, or comparisons of different approaches, but rather ...

The explosive growth of application areas such as e-commerce, enterprise resource planning, and mobile computing has profoundly and irreversibly changed our views on software systems. Nowadays, software is to be based on open architectures that continuously evolve to accommodate new components. Software must also operate on different platforms, without recompilation, and with minimal assumptions about its operating environment and its users. ...

Selected contributions from FDL'04'> The seventh book in the CHDL Series is composed of a selection of the best articles from the Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL'04). FDL is the European Forum to learn and exchange on new trends on the application of languages and models for the design of electronic and heterogeneous systems.
The forum was structured around four workshops that are all represented in the book by outstanding articles: Analog and Mixed-Signal ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics, TPHOLs 2001, held in Edinburgh, Scotlang, UK in September 2001. The 23 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper and two invited abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 47 submissions. All current issues in HOL theorem proving and formal verification of hardware and ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference of B and Z Users, ZB 2002, held in Grenoble, France in January 2002. The 24 papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The book documents the recent advances for the Z formal specification notion and for the B method; the full scope is covered, ranging from foundational and ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2002, held in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2002. The 35 revised full papers presented together with five invited contributions and 11 tool presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections in symbolic model checking, abstraction/refinement and model checking, ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2001, held in Genova, Italy in April 2001.The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 74 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on metamodeling, distributed components, UML, testing, formal methods, and case studies. ...