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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2022, held in Madrid, Spain, in October 2022. The 16 full and 4 short papers presented together with 1 doctoral symposium paper in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers cover for research in all areas related to formal engineering methods, such as verification and validation, software engineering, formal specification and modeling, software security, and software reliability.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2018, which took place in Salvador, Brazil, in November 2018.The 16 regular papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as: techniques and methodologies; specification and modeling languages; theoretical foundations; verification and validation; experience reports regarding teaching formal methods; and applications.Chapter “TeSSLa: Temporal Stream-Based Specification Language” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2017, held in Xi'an, China, in November 2017. The 28 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk and two abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The conference focuses on all areas related to formal engineering methods, such as verification and validation, software engineering, formal specification and modeling, software security, and software reliability.

This festschrift was written in honor of Andrew William (Bill) Roscoe on the occasion of his 60th birthday, and features tributes by Sir Tony Hoare, Stephen Brookes, and Michael Wooldridge. Bill Roscoe is an international authority in process algebra, and has been the driving force behind the development of the FDR refinement checker for CSP. He is also world renowned for his pioneering work in analyzing security protocols, modeling information flow, human-interactive security, and much more. Many of these areas are reflected in the 15 invited research articles in this festschrift, and in the presentations at the'BILL-60'symposium held in Oxford, UK, on January 9 and 10, 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2016, held in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2016. The 27 revised full papers presented together with three invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The conference focuses in all areas related to formal engineering meth-ods, such as verification and validation, software engineering, formal specification and modeling, software security, and software reliability.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2015, held in York, UK, in September 2015.The 17 full papers presented together with 2 invited and 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The topics of interest included the following aspects of software engineering and formal methods: program verification, testing, certification, formal specification and proof, testing and model checking, planning, modelling, and model transformation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2014, held in Houston, TX, USA, April 29 – May 1, 2014. The 20 revised regular papers presented together with 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The topics include model checking, theorem proving, static analysis, model-based development, runtime monitoring, formal approaches to fault tolerance, applications of formal methods to aerospace systems, formal analysis of cyber-physical systems, including hybrid and embedded systems, formal methods in systems engineering, modeling, requirements and specifications, requirements generation, specification debugging, formal validation of specifications, use of formal methods in safety cases, use of formal methods in human-machine interaction analysis, formal methods for parallel hardware implementations, use of formal methods in automated software engineering and testing, correct-by-design, design for verification, and property based design techniques, techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods, e.g., abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, parallel and distributed techniques, and application of formal methods to emerging technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the11th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2013, held in Madrid, Spain, in September 2013. The 21 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. They are organized in topical section on real-time systems, verification, types and inference, static analysis, testing and runtime verification, and synthesis and transformation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2013, held in Queenstown, New Zealand, in October/November 2013. The 28 revised full papers together with 2 keynote speeches presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The topics covered are abstraction and refinement, formal specification and modeling, program analysis, software verification, formal methods for software safety, security, reliability and dependability, tool development, integration and experiments involving verified systems, formal methods used in certifying products under international standards, and formal model-based development and code generation.

This Festschrift volume, dedicated to He Jifeng on the occasion of his 70th birthday in September 2013, includes 24 refereed papers by leading researchers, current and former colleagues, who congratulated at a celebratory symposium held in Shanghai, China, in the course of the 10th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2013. The papers cover a broad spectrum of subjects, from foundational and theoretical topics to programs and systems issues and to applications, comprising formal methods, software and systems modeling, semantics, laws of programming, specification and verification, as well as logics. He Jifeng is known for his seminal work in the theories of programming and formal methods for software engineering. He is particularly associated with Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP), the theory of data refinement and the laws of programming, and the rCOS formal method for object and component system construction. His book on UTP with Tony Hoare has been widely read and followed by a large number of researchers, and it has been used in many postgraduate courses. He was a senior researcher at Oxford during 1984-1998, and then a senior research fellow at the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST) in Macau during 1998-2005. He has been a professor and currently the Dean of the Institute of Software Engineering at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. In 2005, He Jifeng was elected as an academician to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of York. He won a number of prestigious science and technology awards, including a 2nd prize of Natural Science Award from the State Council of China, a 1st prize of Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education of China, a 1st prize of Technology Innovation from the Ministry of Electronic Industry, and a number awards from Shanghai government.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods, IFM 2012, held Pisa, Italy, in June 2012. The 20 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers cover the spectrum of integrated formal methods, ranging from formal and semiformal notations, semantics, proof frameworks, refinement, verification, timed systems, as well as tools and case studies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2011, held in Aalborg, Denmark, in September 2011. The 20 revised full papers presented together with three invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on probabilistic methods, robustness, games, verification and testing, verification, hybrid systems, and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th InternationalConference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2010, held in Shanghai, China,November 2010.The 42 revised full papers together with 3 invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 114 submissions. The papers address all current issues in formal methods and their applications in software engineering. They are organized in topical sections on theorem proving and decision procedures, web services and workflow, verification, applications of formal methods, probability and concurrency, program analysis, model checking, object orientation and model driven engineering, as well as specification and verification.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2007, held in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, November 14-15, 2007. The 19 revised full papers together with two invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers address all current issues in formal methods and their applications in software engineering. The papers are organized in topical sections.

ThisvolumecontainstheproceedingsofFM2003,the12thInternationalFormal Methods Europe Symposium which was held in Pisa, Italy on September 8–14, 2003. Formal Methods Europe (FME, www. fmeurope. org) is an independent - sociation which aims to stimulate the use of and research on formal methods for system development. FME conferences began with a VDM Europe symposium in 1987. Since then, the meetings have grown and have been held about once - ery 18 months. Throughout the years the symposia have been notably successful in bringing together researchers, tool developers, vendors, and users, both from academia and from industry. Unlike previous symposia in the series, FM 2003 was not given a speci?c theme. Rather, its main goal could be synthesized as “widening the scope. ” Indeed, the organizers aimed at enlarging the audience and impact of the symposium along several directions. Dropping the su?x ‘E'from the title of the conference re?ects the wish to welcome participation and contribution from every country; also,contributionsfromoutsidethetraditionalFormalMethodscommunitywere solicited. The recent innovation of including an Industrial Day as an important part of the symposium shows the strong commitment to involve industrial p- ple more and more within the Formal Methods community. Even the traditional and rather fuzzy borderline between “software engineering formal methods” and methods and formalisms exploited in di?erent?elds of engineering was so- what challenged.

The third in a series of international conferences on Integrated Formal Methods, IFM 2002, was held in Turku, Finland, May 15–17, 2002. Turku, situated in the south western corner of the country, is the former capital of Finland. The? conference was organized jointly by Abo Akademi University and Turku Centre for Computer Science. The theme of IFM 1999 was the integration of state and behavioral based formalisms. For IFM 2000 this was widened to include all aspects pertaining to the integration of formal methods and formal notations. One of the goals of IFM 2002 was to further investigate these themes. Moreover, IFM 2002 explored the relations between formal methods and graphical notations, especially the industrialstandardlanguageforsoftwaredesign,theUni?edModelingLanguage (UML). The themes of IFM 2002 re?ect what we believe is a growing trend in the Formal Methods and Software Engineering research communities. Over the last threedecades,computerscientistshavedevelopedarangeofformalismsfocusing on particular aspects of behavior or analysis, such as sequential program str- tures,concurrentprogramstructures,dataandinformationstructures,temporal reasoning, deductive proof, and model checking. Much e?ort is now being - voted to integrating these methods in order to combine their advantages and ensure they scale up to industrial needs. Graphical notations are now widely used in software engineering and there is growing recognition of the importance ofprovidingthesewiththeformalunderpinningsandformalanalysiscapabilities found in formal methods.