Teaching Formal Methods CoLogNET/FME Symposium, TFM 2004, Ghent, Bel
“Professional engineers can often be distinguished from other designers by the engineers’ ability to use mathematical models to describe and 1 analyze their products.” This observation by Parnas describes the de facto professional standards in all classic
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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Teaching Formal Methods CoLogNET/FME Symposium, TFM 2004 Ghent, Belgium, November 18-19, 2004 Proceedings
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Volume Editors C. Neville Dean Anglia Polytechnic University East Rd, Cambridge, CB1 1PT, UK E-mail: [email protected] Raymond T. Boute INTEC, Ghent University Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
“Professional engineers can often be distinguished from other designers by the engineers’ ability to use mathematical models to describe and analyze their products.”1 This observation by Parnas describes the de facto professional standards in all classical engineering disciplines (civil, mechanical, electrical, etc.). Unfortunately, it is in sharp contrast with current (industrial) practice in software design, where mathematical models are hardly used at all, even by those who, in Holloway’s words2 “aspire to be engineers.” The rare exceptions are certain critical applications, where mathematical techniques are used under the general name formal methods. Yet, the same characteristics that make formal methods a necessity in critical applications make them also advant
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