This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2015, held in Paris, France, in November 2015. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the area of formal methods and software engineering and are devoted to advancing the state of the art of applying formal methods in practice. They focus in particular on combinations of co...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium on Logical Foundations of Computer Science, LFCS 2018, held in Deerfield Beach, FL, USA, in January 2018.The 22 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The scope of the Symposium is broad and includes constructive mathematics and type theory; homotopy type theory; logic, automata, and automatic structures; computability and randomness; logical foundations of programmi...

This book constitutes the thoroughly revised selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Formal Aspects of Component Software, FACS 2017, held in Braga, Portugal, in October 2017.The 14 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. FACS 2016 is concerned with how formal methods can be used to make component-based and service-oriented software development succeed. Formal methods have provided a foundation for component-based software b...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2016, held in Haifa, Israel in November 2016. The 13 revised full papers and one tool paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. They are dedicated to advance the state of the art and state of the practice in verification and testing and are discussing future directions of testing and verification for hardware, software, and complex hybrid systems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2013, held in Dallas, Texas, in November 2013.The 16 revised full papers presented together with 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the area of cryptography and cryptanalysis and are organized in the following topical sections: security of operating systems; secre...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2015, held in Haifa, Israel, in November 2015.The 17 revised full papers and 4 invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on hybrid systems; tools; verification of robotics; symbolic execution; model checking; timed systems; SAT solving; multi domain verification; and synthesis.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems, SERENE 2016, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in September 2016.The 10 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. They cover the following areas: development of resilient systems; incremental development processes for resilient systems; requirements engineering and re-engineering for resilience; frameworks, patterns and software architec...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2017, held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2017.The aim of FORMATS is to promote the study of fundamental and practical aspects of timed systems, and to bring together researchers from different disciplines that share interests in modelling and analysis of timed systems and, as a generalization, hybrid systems.

Familiarize yourself with Scilab using this concise, practical tutorial that is focused on writing code to learn concepts. Starting from the basics, this book covers array-based computing, plotting, and working with files in Scilab. Introduction to Scilab is useful for industry engineers, researchers, and students who are looking for open-source solutions for numerical computation.In this book you will learn by doing, avoiding technical jargon, which makes the concepts eas...

This Festschrift volume has been published in honor of Ed Brinksma, on the occasion of his 60th birthday.The contributions in this Festschrift are written by a number of Ed's former Ph.D. students and collaborators. The papers are a reflection on his research contributions and interests and all fall into the area of formal methods, or in Ed's terminology applied mathematics in computer science.The papers address modeling languages and semantics, model-based testing, verific...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in September 2016.The 21 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The contributions cover a variety of multi-disciplinary topics in abstract domains; abstract interpretation; abstract testing; bug detection; data flow analysis; model checking; new applications; program transformation; program verificati...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in September 2016.The 20 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program develo...