Integrated Formal Methods

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods, IFM 2000, held in Dagstuhl, Germany in November 2000.The 22 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are grouped together in topical sections on linking and extending notations, methodology, foundation of one formalism by another, semantics, and verification and validation.

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Invited Talk.- Assertions.- Linking and Extending Notations.- State-Based Extension of CASL.- Linking DC Together with TRSL.- Formalizing Timing Diagrams as Causal Dependencies for Verification Purposes.- A Process Compensation Language.- Activity Graphs and Processes.- Structuring Real-Time Object-Z Specifications.- ISpec: Towards Practical and Sound Interface Specifications.- Methodology.- Cooperation of Formal Methods in an Engineering Based Software Development Process.- Developing Control Systems Components.- Specification and Analysis of Automata-Based Designs.- Structural Refinement in Object-Z / CSP.- Towards a Unified Development Methodology for Shared-Variable Parallel and Distributed Programs.- Foundation of One Formalism by Another.- Construction of Finite Labelled Transition Systems from B Abstract Systems.- ?-Charts and Z: Hows, Whys, and Wherefores.- Combining Operational Semantics, Logic Programming and Literate Programming in the Specification and Animation of the Verilog Hardware Description Language.- Invited Talk.- Why Doesn't Anyone Use Formal Methods?.- Semantics.- How to Write a Healthiness Condition.- A Concurrent and Compositional Petri Net Semantics of Preemption.- Verification and Validation.- An Approach to Symbolic Test Generation.- Behavioral Conformance Verification in an Integrated Approach Using UML and B.- Predicate Diagrams for the Verification of Reactive Systems.- Modular Verification for a Class of PLTL Properties.- Towards Model Checking Stochastic Process Algebra.