This book is based upon work done under the project "Correct Software through Formal Methods" supported by the German Ministry of Research and Technology. As a case-study report on the practice of formal software development, this book systematically presents and compares 18 different approaches to the control of a real-world production cell. Mathematically precise, formal methods play an increasingly important role in software development, particularly in areas where failure of software would result in injury to people or, at best, significant loss of money. By analyzing the benefits and...

Manfred Nagl has been a very active, productive researcher with great impact in a number of di?erent areas, e.g., graphtransformationsand their applications to a wide range of disciplines, software engineering environments, engineering designprocesses, andsoftwarearchitectures.We ?veofhisnumerousacademic descendants were in?uenced deeply by Manfred s work. For this reason, we decided to prepare this volume, which was edited in his honor on the occasion of his 65th birthday. A pre-release (book of abstracts) was presented to Manfred...