Selected papers from the Rigorous State-Based Methods 7th International Conference, ABZ 2020, Ulm, Germany, May 27–29, 2020
The ABZ conference is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of state-based and machine-based formal methods, like Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z, that share a common conceptual foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the design and analysis of hardware and software systems. The conference aims for a vital exchange of knowledge and experience among the research communities around different formal methods. The conference papers have been published in the LNCS series (see https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-48077-6). Contributions were solicited on all aspects of the theory and applications of ASMs, Alloy, B, Event-B, TLA/TLA+, VDM, Z and other state-based rigor approaches in software/hardware engineering, including the development of tools as Formal IDEs, and industrial applications. The program spans from theoretical and methodological foundations to practical applications, emphasizing system engineering methods and tools that are distinguished by mathematical rigor and have proved to be industrially viable. The main goal of the conference is to contribute to the integration of accurate state- and machine-based system development methods, clarifying their commonalities and differences to better understand how to combine different approaches for accomplishing the various tasks in modeling, experimental validation, mathematical verification of reliable high-quality hardware/software systems.
