The Pernambuco School on Software Engineering (PSSE) 2004 was the ?rst in a series of events devoted to the study of advanced computer science and to the promotion of international scienti?c collaboration. The main theme in 2004 was re?nement (or rei?cation). Re?nement describes the veri?able relationship between a speci?cation and its implementation; it also describes the process of discoveringappropriateimplementations, givena speci?cation.Thus, in oneway or another, re?nement is at the heart of the programming process, and so is the major daily activity of...

The International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC) held in 2006 in Tunis, Tunisia, was the third of a series of events created by the InternationalInstituteforSoftwareTechnologyoftheUnitedNationsUniversity. The aim of the colloquium is to bring together researchers from academia, - dustry, and governmentto present their results, and exchange experience, ideas, and solutions for their problems in theoretical aspects of computing. The previous events were held in Guiyang, China (2004), and Hanoi, Vi- nam (2005). Beyond its scholarly goals, another main purpose of ICTAC is...

The Pernambuco School on Software Engineering (PSSE) 2007 was the second in a series of events devoted to the study of advanced computer science and to the promotion of international scienti?c collaboration. The main theme in 2007 was testing. Testing is nowadays a key activity for assuring software quality. The summer school and its proceedings were intended to give a detailed tutorial introduction to the scienti?c basis of this activity and its state of the art. Theseproceedingsrecordthecontributionsfromtheinvitedlecturers.Eachof...

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2010 held in Natal, Brazil, in September 2010.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint 22nd International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems and the 17th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems, FMICS-AVoCS 2017, held in Turin, Italy, in September 2017.

The 14 full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They are organized in the following sections: Automated verification techniques; Testing and scheduling; Formal Methods for mobile and autonomous robots; and Modeling and analysis...