FMi 2013 - 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Formal Methods Integration

Formal methods ensure software system reliability based on theoretical computer science fundamentals. Complex systems often involve different formalisms to deal with the modeling of their different aspects, as each formalism is specific to only some system aspects and none is perfectly supporting all aspect constructs and their related semantics. Accordingly, different analysis techniques are required to check the different system views and verify different kinds of properties. Formalism integration allows for accurately specifying each aspect and verifying its corresponding properties. The FMi workshop aims at further research into hybrid approaches to formal modeling and analysis. It seeks contributions from researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of integrating methods, either formal or semi-formal, for system development, covering all engineering development phases from user requirements through design and analysis techniques to tools. The workshop also encourages new initiatives of building bridges between informal, semi-formal, and formal notations. Authors are invited to submit both research and tool papers.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
scalable formal methods
component-based specification and analysis
component-based development
integrated software architectures and their description languages
hybrid and embedded systems modeling
formal language integration
programming language integration
semi-formal (UML, SysML,...) and formal model integration
informal and formal language integration
integration of formal methods into software engineering practice
method integration
analysis technique integration
safety-critical and fault-tolerant systems modeling
object and multi-agent system modeling
requirement analysis and specification
software specification, verification, and validation
model checking for software and hardware systems
theorem proving and decision procedures
software and hardware analysis
interactive systems and human error analysis
formal aspects of software evolution and maintenance
formal methods for testing, re-engineering and reuse
CASE tools and tool integration
applications of formal methods and industrial case studies
education and formal methods
industrial applications of formal methods
experiments with challenge problems
integration of tools
experimental validation of tools