FME Annual General Meeting 2023

The Annual General Meeting of FME will take place online, June 15, 2023.

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Book Review: Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems

Rajeev Alur: Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems

Summary

The book Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems by Rajeev Alur introduces the principles of design, specification, modeling and analysis of cyber-physical systems with compositional modeling at its heart. This textbook – written with incredible care and attention to pedagogical detail – covers all the relevant fundamental notions. A host of carefully designed exercises should allow it to be used both as course material and for self-study.

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Book Review: Functional Algorithms, Verified!

Tobias Nipkow, Jasmin Blanchette, Manuel Eberl, Alejandro Gómez-Londoño, Peter Lammich, Christian Sternagel, Simon Wimmer, and Bohua Zhan: Functional Algorithms, Verified!

Freely downloadable: https://functional-algorithms-verified.org/

Summary

The book Functional Algorithms, Verified! presents a number of classical functional data structures, accompanying each of them with formal specifications. These specifications describe both the functional correctness and the time complexity of every operation, emphasizing the notion of interface for an abstract data type. The book can be seen as a way to augment a course on functional data structures with an introduction to formal specifications.

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74th FME Meeting, 12 December 2022

The 74th Business Meeting of FME will take place December 12, 2022.

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CfP FormaliSE 2023

Call for Papers
FORMALISE 2023

11th International Conference on Formal Methods in Software Engineering
co-located with ICSE 2023

14-15 May 2023, Melbourne, Australia
http://www.formalise.org

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Book review: Decision Procedures – An Algorithmic Point of View

Daniel Kroening and Ofer Strichman: Decision Procedures – An Algorithmic Point of View

Springer, 2016, 356 pages, ISBN 978-3-662-57065-4
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783662504963

Summary

This book, entitled Decision Procedures – An Algorithmic Point of View, successfully describes and explains algorithmic solutions to decision problems. It is well-suited for use as a textbook and as a developer reference. The book precisely describes a series of algorithms used by decision procedures and also includes many worked out examples accompanied by a library that includes implementations of the algorithms.

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FME Annual General Meeting 2022

The Annual General Meeting of FME will take place as a hybrid meeting at the iFM Conference in Lugano, Switzerland, June 9 2022.

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Book review: Formal Methods: an appetizer

Flemming Nielson and Hanne Riis Nielson: Formal Methods: an appetizer

Springer, 2019, 160 pages, ISBN 978-3-030-05155-6
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-05156-3

Summary

Teaching and convincing practitioners to adopt formal methods in system engineering is admittedly still a challenge. This book aims at generating “appetite” in undergraduate students by introducing some classical formal methods trying to rely on intuition, simple examples, and a “metaformalism” rooted in graph theory which is better known than more sophisticated mathematics at the undergraduate level. The selected areas of application of formal methods are language semantics and program verification. The exposition is generally clear although the adopted notation is sometimes mathematically heavy.

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FM 2023: Announcement

Announcement:
FM 2023: 25th International Symposium on Formal Methods

Lübeck, Germany, March 7-9, 2023
https://fm2023.isp.uni-luebeck.de

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Tutorial Series of the FME Teaching Committee 2022

The FME Teaching Committee’s tutorial series is returning for 2022. So far, there are three tutorials planned, each delivered a different expert in teaching Formal Methods. The tutorials will be delivered online, via zoom.

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