Formal Methods and Software Engineering

Formal engineering methods are intended to o?er e?ective means for integ- tion of formal methods and practical software development technologies in the context of software engineering. Their purpose is to provide e?ective, rigorous, and systematic techniques for signi?cant improvement of software productivity, quality, and tool supportability. In comparison with formal methods, a distinct feature of formal engineering methods is that they emphasize the importance of the balance between the qualities of simplicity, visualization, and preciseness for practicality. To achieve this goal, formal engineering methods must be - veloped on the basis of both formal methods and existing software technologies in software engineering, and they must serve the improvement of the softwa- engineering process. ICFEM 2008 marks the tenth anniversary of the ?rst ICFEM conference, which was held in Hiroshima in 1997. It aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who are interested in the development and application of formal engineering methods to present their latest work and discuss future research directions. The conference o?ers a great opportunity for researchers in both formal methods and software engineering to exchange their ideas, experience, expectation and to ?nd out whether and how their research results can help advance the state of the art.

Invited Talks.- How Can We Make Industry Adopt Formal Methods?.- Programmers Ain't Mathematicians, and Neither Are Testers.- Contract-Based Reasoning for Verification and Certification of Secure Information Flow Policies in Industrial Workflows.- Specification and Verification.- Specifying and Verifying Event-Based Fairness Enhanced Systems.- Modelling and Proof of a Tree-Structured File System in Event-B and Rodin.- Testing.- Conformance Testing Based on UML State Machines.- An Approach to Testing with Embedded Context Using Model Checker.- Requirements Coverage as an Adequacy Measure for Conformance Testing.- Verification 1.- Decomposition for Compositional Verification.- A Formal Soundness Proof of Region-Based Memory Management for Object-Oriented Paradigm.- Program Models for Compositional Verification.- Model Checking and Analysis.- A Unified Model Checking Approach with Projection Temporal Logic.- Formal Analysis of the Bakery Protocol with Consideration of Nonatomic Reads and Writes.- Towards Abstraction for DynAlloy Specifications.- Verification 2.- Partial Translation Verification for Untrusted Code-Generators.- A Practical Approach to Partiality - A Proof Based Approach.- A Representative Function Approach to Symmetry Exploitation for CSP Refinement Checking.- Tools.- Probing the Depths of CSP-M: A New fdr-Compliant Validation Tool.- Practical Automated Partial Verification of Multi-paradigm Real-Time Models.- Application of Formal Methods.- Specifying and Verifying Sensor Networks: An Experiment of Formal Methods.- Correct Channel Passing by Construction.- Semantics.- A Process Semantics for BPMN.- A Formal Descriptive Semantics of UML.