Full Description
This volume contains the proceedings of AMAST 2004, the 10th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology, held during July 12-16,2004,in Stirling, Scotland, UK. The major goalof the AMAST c- ferences is to promote research that may lead to the setting of software techn- ogy on a ?rm, mathematical basis. This goal is achieved by a large international cooperationwith contributions from both academia and industry. The virtues of a software technology developed on a mathematical basis have been envisioned asbeing capableofprovidingsoftwarethatis(a)correct,andthecorrectnesscan be provedmathematically, (b) safe, so that it can be used in the implementation of critical systems, (c) portable, i. e. , independent of computing platforms and language generations, and (d) evolutionary, i. e. , it is self-adaptable and evolves with the problem domain. PreviousAMASTmeetingswereheldinIowaCity(1989,1991,2000),Twente (1993), Montreal (1995), Munich (1996), Sydney (1997), Manaus (1999), and Reunion Island (2002), and contributed to the AMAST goals by reporting and disseminating academic and industrial achievements within the AMAST area of interest.
During these meetings, AMAST attracted an international following among researchersand practitioners interested in software technology, progr- ming methodology and their algebraic and logical foundations. For AMAST 2004therewere63 submissionsof overallhigh quality, authored by researchers from Australia, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Korea, Portugal,Spain, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Turkey, the UK, and the USA. All submissions were thoroughly evaluated, and an electronic programcommittee meeting was held to discuss the reviewers' reports. The program committee selected 35 papers to be presented.
Contents
Invited Speakers.- Algebraic Approaches to Problem Generalisation.- A Science of Software Design.- Glass Box and Black Box Views of State-Based System Specifications.- Abstraction for Safety, Induction for Liveness.- Counting Votes with Formal Methods.- Agent-Oriented Programming: Where Do We Stand?.- Contributed Talks.- On Guard: Producing Run-Time Checks from Integrity Constraints.- Behavioural Types and Component Adaptation.- Towards Correspondence Carrying Specifications.- Formalizing and Proving Semantic Relations between Specifications by Reflection.- Model-Checking Systems with Unbounded Variables without Abstraction.- A Generic Software Safety Document Generator.- Linear Temporal Logic and Z Refinement.- Formal JVM Code Analysis in JavaFAN.- Verifying a Sliding Window Protocol in ?CRL.- State Space Reduction for Process Algebra Specifications.- A Hybrid Logic of Knowledge Supporting Topological Reasoning.- A Language for Configuring Multi-level Specifications.- Flexible Proof Reuse for Software Verification.- Deductive Verification of Distributed Groupware Systems.- Formal Verification of a Commercial Smart Card Applet with Multiple Tools.- Abstracting Call-Stacks for Interprocedural Verification of Imperative Programs.- Refining Mobile UML State Machines.- Verifying Invariants of Component-Based Systems through Refinement.- Modelling Concurrent Interactions.- Proof Support for RAISE by a Reuse Approach Based on Institutions.- Separate Compositional Analysis of Class-Based Object-Oriented Languages.- Abstract Domains for Property Checking Driven Analysis of Temporal Properties.- Modular Rewriting Semantics of Programming Languages.- Modal Kleene Algebra and Partial Correctness.- Modularity and the Rule of Adaptation.- Modal Abstractions in ?CRL.- Semantics ofPlan Revision in Intelligent Agents.- Generic Exception Handling and the Java Monad.- Expressing Iterative Properties Logically in a Symbolic Setting.- Extending Separation Logic with Fixpoints and Postponed Substitution.- A Formally Verified Calculus for Full Java Card.- On Refinement of Generic State-Based Software Components.- Techniques for Executing and Reasoning about Specification Diagrams.- Formalising Graphical Behaviour Descriptions.- Model-Checking Distributed Real-Time Systems with States, Events, and Multiple Fairness Assumptions.
