Welcome to ABZ 2023,  May 30- June 2  2023, LORIA (CNRS, INRIA,Université de Lorraine),  Nancy, France

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.

ABZ 2023 will propose a  scientific programme  with scientific talks based on accepted research papers, keynote speakers, tutorials,  satellite workshops.

Please visit the website abz2023.loria.fr

 

 

Call for participation MEMOCODE 2022 in ESWEEK

MEMOCODE 2022 is a part of ESWEEK 2022, which is planned as a hybrid event, with the onsite component in Shanghai, China.   The scientific programme is now ready and ob the website of the conbferxebnce please have a look. 

Two keynote speakers are   announced:

  • Manuel Serrano, INRIA:  Of JavaScript Ahead-Of-Time Compilation Performance
  • Nan Guan, City University of Hong Kong: Towards a Theoretical Foundation for Real-Time Robotic Operating System (ROS)

Registration is possible using the website of ESWEEK.

 

Selected Papers From The 13th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering 29 July – 1 August 2019, Guilin, China

The 13th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE 2019) has been held in Guilin, China in July, 2019. TASE is an international symposium that aims to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry with interest in the theoretical aspects of software engineering. Modern society is increasingly dependent on software systems that are becoming larger and more complex. This poses new challenges to current software engineering methodologies that need to be enhanced using modern results from theoretical computer science. We invited submission of research papers on topics covering all theoretical aspects of software engineering, including those describing applications of theoretical computer science in industrial applications and software engineering methodologies. TASE 2019 is the 13th in the TASE series. The past TASE symposiums were successfully held in Shanghai (’07), Nanjing (’08), Tianjin (’09), Taipei (’10), Xi’an (’11), Beijing (’12), Birmingham (’13), Changsha (’14), Nanjing (’15), Shanghai (’16), Nice (’17), Guangzhou (’18). The current special issue is proposing a list of papers selected among the papers published in the TASE 2019 proceedings.

 

Please  visit the link https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1eqh7c7X53Ldt

Special Issue for ABZ 2020 is ready

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.

MEMOCODE 2022

The message is informing  the reader that the next edition of MEMOCODE 2022 is planned for the last quarter of the year 2022.  You can start to prepare your submissions  and you will be ready for  a  contribution  to the next edition.

 

ABZ 2021

ABZ 2021 – 8th International Conference on
Rigorous State Based Methods (virtual)

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.

Due to the worldwide spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 the ABZ 2020 was postponed to 2021. Nevertheless, all accepted contributions to ABZ 2020 have been published as Springer LNCS volume. Most of them will be presented at ABZ 2021 additionally to the new contributions as answers to the call for papers for ABZ 2021.

MEMOCODE’21 19th ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for System Design Beijing, China Nov 20-22, Co-located with FM 2021

Dates

  • Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2021, 23:59 AoE
  • Paper submission deadline: July 6, 2021, 23:59 AoE
  • Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2021
  • Final version of papers: September 29, 2021, 23:59 AoE
  • Conference: November 20-22, 2021

MEMOCODE 2021 will be held as a virtual conference in light of the current COVID-19 situation, with the safety and well-being of all conference participants as the top priority.

Please visit  the conference link https:MEMOCODE 2021

 

 

 

 

New Book : Implicit and Explicit Semantics Integration in Proof-Based Developments of Discrete Systems Communications of NII Shonan Meetings

Editors: Ait-Ameur, Yamine, Nakajima, Shin, Méry, Dominique (Eds.)

 

This book addresses mechanisms for reducing model heterogeneity induced by the absence of explicit semantics expression in the formal techniques used to specify design models. More precisely, it highlights the advances in handling both implicit and explicit semantics in formal system developments, and discusses different contributions expressing different views and perceptions on the implicit and explicit semantics.

The book is based on the discussions at the Shonan meeting on this topic held in 2016, and includes contributions from the participants summarising their perspectives on the problem and offering solutions. Divided into 5 parts: domain modelling, knowledge-based modelling, proof-based modelling, assurance cases, and refinement-based modelling, and offers inspiration for researchers and practitioners in the fields of formal methods, system and software engineering, domain knowledge modelling, requirement analysis, and explicit and implicit semantics of modelling languages.

 

The book is related to the  ANR Project IMPEX  http://impex.loria.fr

 

 

ABZ2020 – 7th International Conference on Rigorous State Based Methods

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.

Important Dates

  • Workshop proposal : 01.11.19
  • Tutorial proposal : 16.02.20
  • Case study abstract : 29.11.19
  • Paper abstract : 13.01.20
  • Conference : 25. – 29.05.20

Case Study

As successfully practiced at ABZ 2014, ABZ 2016, and ABZ 2018, the 7th edition of ABZ will include again special sessions dedicated to a shared real-life case study. The objective of this session is to enrich the set of case studies developed with ABZ methods with a practical and real-life case study. After the success of the “Landing Gear” case study at ABZ 2014 in the aeronautical context, the « Hemodialysis Machine » case study at ABZ 2016 in the medical domain, and the « Hybrid ERTMS/ETCS » at ABZ 2018 in the railway domain, this time we defined a real-life case study issued from the automotive domain.