Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems

The courses of SETSS 2014 aim to improve the understanding of the relation between theory and practice in software engineering, to contribute to narrowing the gap between them. This volume contains the lecture notes of the five courses and materials of one seminar. The common themes of the courses include the design and use of theories, techniques and tools for software specification and modeling, analysis and verification. The courses cover sequential programming, component- and object software, hybrid systems and cyber-physical systems with challenges of termination, security, safety, security, fault-tolerance and real-time requirements. The techniques include model checking, correctness by construction through refinement and model transformations, synthesis and computer algebra.

Klappentext

This volume contains the lecture notes of the five courses and one seminar given at the School on Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems (SETSS 2014), held in September 2014 at Southwest University in Chongqing, China. The material is useful for postgraduate students, researchers, academics and industrial engineers who are interested in the theory and practice of methods and tools for the design and programming of trustworthy software systems. The common themes of the courses include the design and use of theories, techniques and tools for software specification and modeling, analysis and verification. The courses cover sequential programming, component- and object software, hybrid systems and cyber-physical systems with challenges of termination, security, safety, security, fault-tolerance and real-time requirements. The techniques include model checking, correctness by construction through refinement and model transformations, synthesis and computer algebra.

Inhalt

(In-)formal methods: The Lost Art.- Program refinement, perfect secrecy and information flow.- The Z Notation: Whence the Cause and Whither the Course?.- Model-Driven Design of Object and Component Systems.- Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering.- Combining Formal and Informal Methods in the Design of Spacecrafts.