Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems - FORTE 2004

This volume contains the proceedings of the 24th IFIP TC 6/WG 6.1 Inter- tionalConference onFormalTechniquesfor Networkedand Distributed Systems (FORTE 2004),held in Madrid, Spain, September 27 30,2004.FORTE denotes a series of international working conferences on formal description techniques applied to computer networks and distributed systems. The conference series started in 1981 under the name PSTV. In 1988 a second series under the name FORTE was set up. Both series were united to FORTE/PSTV in 1996. Three years ago the conference name was changed to its current form. The last ?ve meetings of this well-established conference series were held in Beijing, China (1999), Pisa, Italy (2000), Cheju Island, Korea (2001), Houston, USA (2002), and Berlin, Germany (2003). The scope of the papers presented at FORTE 2004 covered semantic models and application of formal description languages (in particular, automata and Petri Nets), as well as the veri?cation and testing of communication and d- tributedsystems.Theconferencewasprecededby2half-daytutorialsbyRoberto GorrieriandFarnWang.Theproceedingscontainthe20regularpapersaccepted and presented at the conference. They were selected from 54 submitted papers inacarefulselectionprocedurebasedontheassessmentofthreerefereesforeach paper. The proceedings also include the papers contributed by the three invited speakers: Mart ?n Abadi, Tommaso Bolognesi, and Juan Quemada.

Inhalt
Invited Talks.- A Logical Account of NGSCB.- Composing Event Constraints in State-Based Specification.- Formal Description Techniques and Software Engineering: Some Reflections after 2 Decades of Research.- Regular Papers.- Parameterized Models for Distributed Java Objects.- Towards the Harmonisation of UML and SDL.- Localizing Program Errors for Cimple Debugging.- Formal Verification of a Practical Lock-Free Queue Algorithm.- Formal Verification of Web Applications Modeled by Communicating Automata.- Towards Design Recovery from Observations.- Network Protocol System Passive Testing for Fault Management: A Backward Checking Approach.- Connectivity Testing Through Model-Checking.- Fault Propagation by Equation Solving.- Automatic Generation of Run-Time Test Oracles for Distributed Real-Time Systems.- Formal Composition of Distributed Scenarios.- Conditions for Resolving Observability Problems in Distributed Testing.- Integrating Formal Verification with Mur? of Distributed Cache Coherence Protocols in FAME Multiprocessor System Design.- Witness and Counterexample Automata for ACTL.- A Symbolic Symbolic State Space Representation.- Introducing the Iteration in sPBC.- Petri Net Semantics of the Finite ?-Calculus.- Symbolic Diagnosis of Partially Observable Concurrent Systems.- Automatized Verification of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols.- A Temporal Logic Based Framework for Intrusion Detection.