Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: Verification Principles

The three-volume set LNCS 12476 - 12478 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, ISoLA 2020, which was planned to take place during October 20-30, 2020, on Rhodes, Greece. The event itself was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings.

Each volume focusses on an individual topic with topical section headings within the volume:

Part I, Verification Principles: Modularity and (De-)Composition in Verification; X-by-Construction: Correctness meets Probability; 30 Years of Statistical Model Checking; Verification and Validation of Concurrent and Distributed Systems.

Part II, Engineering Principles: Automating Software Re-Engineering; Rigorous Engineering of Collective Adaptive Systems.

Part III, Applications: Reliable Smart Contracts: State-of-the-art, Applications, Challenges and Future Directions; Automated Verification of Embedded Control Software; Formal methods for DIStributed COmputing in future RAILway systems.

Inhalt

Who Carries the Burden of Modularity?.- On Testing Message-Passing Components.- Composing Communicating Systems, Synchronously.- Modular Verification of JML Contracts Using Bounded Model Checking.- On Slicing Software Product Line Signatures.- Assumption-Commitment Types for Resource Management in Virtually Timed Ambients.- Abstraction and Genericity in Why3.- Verification Artifacts in Cooperative Verification: Survey and Unifying Component Framework.- An Interface Theory for Program Verification.- Scaling Correctness-by-Construction.- X-by-Construction: Correctness meets Probability.- Correctness by construction for probabilistic programs.- Components in Probabilistic Systems: Suitable by Construction.- Behavioral Specification Theories: an Algebraic Taxonomy.- Approximating Euclidean by Imprecise Markov Decision Processes.- Shield Synthesis for Reinforcement Learning.- Inferring Performance From Code: A Review.- 30 years of Statistical Model Checking.- Statistical Model Checking: Black or White?.- Probabilistic Mission Planning and Analysis for Multi-agent Systems.- 30 Years of Simulation-Based Quantitative Analysis Tools: a Comparison Experiment between Möbius and Uppaal SMC.- Fluid Model-Checking in UPPAAL for Covid-19.- Improving Secure and Robust Patient Service Delivery.- Verification and Validation of Concurrent and Distributed Systems (Track Summary).- Step-wise Development of Provably Correct Actor Systems.- Violation Witnesses and Result Validation for Multi-Threaded Programs.- Tendermint Blockchain Synchronization: Formal Specification and Model Checking.- Safe Sessions of Channel Actions in Clojure: A Tour of the Discourje Project.- Modular Verification of Liveness Properties of the I/O Behavior of Imperative Programs.- Formal Verification of an Industrial Distributed Algorithm: an Experience Report.- Deploying TESTAR to enable remote testing in an industrial CI pipeline: a case-based evaluation.- A Formal Model of the Kubernetes Container Framework.