The 74th Business Meeting of FME will take place December 12, 2022.
| About FME | Committees | Formal Methods | Events | FME Awards |
Springer, 2016, 356 pages, ISBN 978-3-662-57065-4
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783662504963
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.
The Annual General Meeting of FME will take place as a hybrid meeting at the iFM Conference in Lugano, Switzerland, June 9 2022.
Springer, 2019, 160 pages, ISBN 978-3-030-05155-6
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-05156-3
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.
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.
Prof. Dines Bjørner, professor emeritus of computer science at the Technical University of Denmark (DK), has been awarded the FME Fellowship 2021. The Fellowships are awarded every three years in recognition of technical breakthroughs and pioneering work in advancing, applying, and promoting mathematically rigorous methods for the design of computing systems.
Springer, 2018, 133 pages, ISBN 978-3-319-67106-2
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319671062
Exams are an important aspect in assessing people’s skills and as such play a key role to establish meritocracy in modern societies. To be effective, however, exams need to be fair and secure against tampering, which is where Rosario Giustolisi’s book “Modelling and Verification of Secure Exams’’ [5] comes to the rescue. Over 133 pages, the book describes the different aspects of exams in detail and identifies various security-related requirements for them. Moreover, the book describes how to formally model an exam using the applied pi-calculus and how to verify security requirements for it using the ProVerif verifier. Finally, the book presents the outcome of modelling and analysing three popular example protocols. This book might be of interest to everyone who wants to learn more about the nature of exams in general, and in particular about how to model and verify them. To fully appreciate the book, however, some familiarity with the applied pi-calculus and in particular the ProVerif verifier is necessary.