This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Abstract State Machines, B, VDM, and Z, which took place in Pisa, Italy, in June 2012. The 20 full papers presented together with 2 invited talks and 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The ABZ conference series is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of five related state-based and machine-based formal methods: Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, VDM, and Z. They share a common conceptual foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the design and analysis of hardware and software systems. The main goal of this conference series is to contribute to the integration of these formal methods, clarifying their commonalities and differences to better understand how to combine different approaches for accomplishing the various tasks in modeling, experimental validation and mathematical verification of reliable high-quality hardware/software systems.
Editors and Affiliations
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
John Derrick
Newcastle University, UK
John Fitzgerald
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, Pisa, Italy
Stefania Gnesi
Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
Sarfraz Khurshid
Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Michael Leuschel
Department of Computer Science, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Steve Reeves
Department of Information Technology, Università degli Studi di Milano, Crema, Italy
Elvinia Riccobene
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, VDM, and Z
Book Subtitle: Third International Conference, ABZ 2012, Pisa, Italy, June 18-21, 2012. Proceedings
Editors: John Derrick, John Fitzgerald, Stefania Gnesi, Sarfraz Khurshid, Michael Leuschel, Steve Reeves, Elvinia Riccobene
