FME '96, industrial benefit and advances in formal methods : Third International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe co-sponsored by IFIP WG 14.3, Oxford, UK, March 18-22, 1996 : proceedings

"This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe, FME '96, held in Oxford, UK, in March 1996. FME '96 was co-sponsored by IFIP WG 14.3 and devoted to "the application and demonstrated industrial benefit of formal methods, their new horizons and strengthened foundations". The 35 full revised papers included were selected from a total of 103 submissions; also included are three invited papers. The book addresses all relevant aspects of formal methods, from the point of view of the industrial R & D professional as well as from the academic viewpoint, and impressively documents the significant progress in the use of formal methods for the solution of real-world problems."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE How did software get so reliable without proof?....Pages 1-17 A case study on the formal development of a reactor safety system....Pages 18-38 Test automation for safety-critical systems: Industrial application and future developments....Pages 39-59 Quantitative analysis of an application of formal methods....Pages 60-73 Applying the B technologies to CICS....Pages 74-84 Refining action systems within B-Tool....Pages 85-104 Integrating action systems and Z in a medical system specification....Pages 105-119 Formalizing Anaesthesia: A case study in formal specification....Pages 120-139 A new system engineering methodology coupling formal specification and performance evaluation....Pages 140-159 Formalizing new navigation requirements for NASA's Space Shuttle....Pages 160-178 Combining VDM-SL specifications with C++ code....Pages 179-194 Data reification without explicit abstraction functions....Pages 195-213 Formal and informal specifications of a secure system component: Final results in a comparative study....Pages 214-227 Visual verification of safety and liveness....Pages 228-247 Graphical development of consistent system specifications....Pages 248-267 Deduction in the Verification Support Environment (VSE)....Pages 268-286 Consistency and refinement for partial specification in Z....Pages 287-306 Combining statecharts and Z for the design of safety-critical control systems....Pages 307-326 Integrating real-time scheduling theory and program refinement....Pages 327-346 Using a logical and categorical approach for the validation of fault-tolerant systems....Pages 347-366 Local nondeterminism in asynchronously communicating processes....Pages 367-384 Identification of and solutions to shortcomings of LCL, a Larch/C interface specification language....Pages 385-404 Formal specification and verification of the pGVT algorithm....Pages 405-424 Automatic verification of a hydroelectric power plant....Pages 425-444 Experiences in embedded scheduling....Pages 445-464 Model checking in practice: An analysis of the ACCESS.bus TM protocol using SPIN....Pages 465-478 The incremental development of correct specifications for distributed systems....Pages 479-498 A theory of distributing train rescheduling....Pages 499-517 An improved translation of SA/RT specification model to high-level timed Petri nets....Pages 518-537 From testing theory to test driver implementation....Pages 538-556 Program slicing using weakest preconditions....Pages 557-575 A formal approach to architectural design patterns....Pages 576-594 Modular completeness: Integrating the reuse of specified software in top-down program development....Pages 595-608 A strategic approach to transformational design....Pages 609-628 Correct and user-friendly implementations of transformation systems....Pages 629-648 An example of use of formal methods to debug an embedded software....Pages 649-661 Experiments in theorem proving and model checking for protocol verification....Pages 662-681 Procedure-level verification of real-time concurrent systems....Pages 682-701

This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe, FME '96, held in Oxford, UK, in March 1996. FME '96 was co-sponsored by IFIP WG 14.3 and devoted to the application and demonstrated industrial benefit of formal methods, their new horizons and strengthened foundations.
The 35 full revised papers included were selected from a total of 103 submissions; also included are three invited papers. The book addresses all relevant aspects of formal methods, from the point of view of the industrial R & D professional as well as from the academic viewpoint, and impressively documents the significant progress in the use of formal methods for the solution of real-world problems.