The refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference of Z and B Users, ZB 2003, held in Turku, Finland in June 2003. The 28 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The book documents the recent advances for the Z formal specification notation and for the B method, spanning the full scope from foundational, theoretical, and methodological issues to advanced applications, tools, and case studies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference of Abstract State Machines, B and Z, ABZ 2008, held in London, UK, in September 2008. The conference simultaneously incorporated the 15th International ASM Workshop, the 17th International Conference of Z Users and the 8th International Conference on the B Method. The 44 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The conference fosters the cross-fertilization of three rigorous methods for the design and analysis of hardware and software systems - both in academia and industry - namely Abstract State Machines, B, and Z. Covering a wide range of research spanning from theoretical and methodological foundations to tool support and practical applications, the contributions are organized in topical sections on abstract state machines, B papers, Z papers, ABZ short papers, and the papers of the Verified Software Repository Network (VSR-net) workshop.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science, RAMiCS 2018, held in Groningen, The Netherlands, in October/November 2018. The 21 full papers and 1 invited paper presented together with 2 invited abstracts and 1 abstract of a tutorial were carefully selected from 31 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topics: Theoretical foundations; reasoning about computations and programs; and applications and tools.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops collocated with the SEFM 2014 conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, held in Grenoble, France, in September 2014. The 26 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They are from the following workshops: the 1st Workshop on Human-Oriented Formal Methods - From Readability to Automation, HOFM 2014, the 3rd International Symposium on Modelling and Knowledge Management Applications - Systems and Domains, MoKMaSD 2014, the 8th International Workshop on Foundations and Techniques for Open Source Software Certification, Open Cert 2014, the 1st Workshop on Safety and Formal Methods, SaFoMe 2014 and the 4th Workshop on Formal Methods in the Development of Software, WS-FMDS 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2005, held in Namur, Belgium in April 2005. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. Among the topics addressed are Web services, safe ambients, process calculus, abstract verification, role-based software, delegation modeling, distributed information flow, adaptive Web content provision, global computing, mobile agents, mobile computing, multithreaded code generation, shared data space coordination languages, automata specifications, time aware coordination, and service discovery.

Many formal approaches for pattern specification are emerging as a means to cope with the inherent shortcomings of informal description. Design Pattern Formalization Techniques presents multiple mathematical, formal approaches for pattern specification, emphasizing on software development processes for engineering disciplines. Design Pattern Formalization Techniques focuses on formalizing the solution element of patterns, providing tangible benefits to pattern users, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners and students working in the field of design patterns and software reuse.Design Pattern Formalization Techniques explains details on several specification languages, allowing readers to choose the most suitable formal technique to solve their specific inquiries.