Full Description
This volume contains the lecture notes of the five courses
and one seminar given at the School on Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems
(SETSS 2014), held in September 2014 at Southwest University in Chongqing,
China.
The material is useful for postgraduate students,
researchers, academics and industrial engineers who are interested in the
theory and practice of methods and tools for the design and programming of
trustworthy software systems. The common themes of the courses include the
design and use of theories, techniques and tools for software specification and
modeling, analysis and verification. The courses cover sequential programming,
component- and object software, hybrid systems and cyber-physical systems with
challenges of termination, security, safety, security, fault-tolerance and
real-time requirements. The techniques include model checking, correctness by
construction through refinement and model transformations, synthesis and
computer algebra.
Contents
(In-)formal methods: The Lost Art.- Program refinement, perfect secrecy and information flow.- The Z Notation: Whence the Cause and Whither the Course?.- Model-Driven Design of Object and Component Systems.- Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering.- Combining Formal and Informal Methods in the Design of Spacecrafts.
