FM 2008: Formal Methods

Session 1. Invited Talks.- Aspects and Formal Methods.- Getting Formal Verification into Design Flow.- Lessons in the Weird and Unexpected: Some Experiences from Checking Large Real Systems.- Simulation, Orchestration and Logical Clocks.- Session 2. Programming Language Analysis.- CoVaC: Compiler Validation by Program Analysis of the Cross-Product.- Lazy Behavioral Subtyping.- Checking Well-Formedness of Pure-Method Specifications.- Session 3. Verification.- Verifying Dynamic Pointer-Manipulating Threads.- Proofs and Refutations for Probabilistic Refinement.- Assume-Guarantee Verification for Interface Automata.- Session 4. Real-Time and Concurrency.- Automated Verification of Dense-Time MTL Specifications Via Discrete-Time Approximation.- A Model Checking Language for Concurrent Value-Passing Systems.- Session 5. Grand Chellenge Problems.- Verification of Mondex Electronic Purses with KIV: From a Security Protocol to Verified Code.- Incremental Development of a Distributed Real-Time Model of a Cardiac Pacing System Using VDM.- Session 6. FM Practice.- Industrial Use of Formal Methods for a High-Level Security Evaluation.- Secret Ninja Formal Methods.- Specification and Checking of Software Contracts for Conditional Information Flow.- Session 7. Runtime Moitoring and Analysis.- JML Runtime Assertion Checking: Improved Error Reporting and Efficiency Using Strong Validity.- Provably Correct Runtime Monitoring.- Session 8. Communication.- A Schedulerless Semantics of TLM Models Written in SystemC Via Translation into LOTOS.- A Rigorous Approach to Networking: TCP, from Implementation to Protocol to Service.- Session 9. Constraint Analysis.- Constraint Prioritization for Efficient Analysis of Declarative Models.- Finding Minimal Unsatisfiable Cores of Declarative Specifications.- Precise Interval Analysis vs. Parity Games.- Session 10. Design.- Introducing Objects through Refinement.- Masking Faults While Providing Bounded-Time Phased Recovery.- Towards Consistent Specifications of Product Families.- Session 11. Industry Day.- Formal Methods for Trustworthy Skies: Building Confidence in the Security of Aircraft Assets Distribution.- An Industrial Case: Pitfalls and Benefits of Applying Formal Methods to the Development of a Network-Centric RTOS.- Software Engineering with Formal Methods: Experiences with the Development of a Storm Surge Barrier Control System.- Application of a Formal Specification Language in the Development of the Mobile FeliCa IC Chip Firmware for Embedding in Mobile Phone.- Safe and Reliable Metro Platform Screen Doors Control/Command Systems.