This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2013, held in Queenstown, New Zealand, in October/November 2013. The 28 revised full papers together with 2 keynote speeches presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The topics covered are abstraction and refinement, formal specification and modeling, program analysis, software verification, formal methods for software safety, security, reliability and dependability, tool development, integration and experiments involving verified systems, formal...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems, SERENE 2011, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in September 2011.
The 13 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers address all aspects of formal modeling and verification, architecting resilient systems, fault tolerance, requirements engineering and product lines, monitoring and self-adaption, and security and intrusion avoidance.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2011, held in Lancaster, UK, in July 2011. The 26 revised full papers, presented together with three keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 100 submissions. The papers cover topics such as empirical studies, mining, understanding, recommending, modularity, modelling and refactoring, aliasing and ownership; as well as memory optimizations.

The 18 revised full papers presented here are organized in topical sections on ontology engineering, Web services and security, advanced systems, knowledge management, model specification and verification and models engineering.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science, MEMICS 2011, held in Lednice, Czech Republic, on October 14-16, 2011.
The 13 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers address all current issues of mathematical and engineering methods in computer science, especially: software and hardware dependability, computer security, computer-aided analysis and verification, testing and...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods, WS-FM 2011, held in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in September 2011. The workshop was co-located with the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2011. The 9 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. They deal with service oriented computing (SOC), cloud computing and formal methods.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods, IFM 2012, held Pisa, Italy, in June 2012.

Contains the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on "Intelligent Tutoring Systems", ITS 2012, held in Chania, Crete, Greece, in June 2012. This title brings together researchers in computer science, informatics, and artificial intelligence on the one side - and cognitive science, educational psychology, and linguistics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13 International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2012, held in Madrid, Spain, in June 2012. The 21 revised full papers presented together with 3 short papers and 4 workshop and tutorial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on process focused software process improvement, open-source agile and lean practices, product and process measurements and estimation, distributed and global software development, quality assessment, and empirical...

Published in honor of the 65th birthday of Bernd Kramer, this book offers 11 contributions by close scientific companions on such topics as Petri nets and theoretical computer science, software and service engineering, cloud computing and e-learning.