The second half of the twentieth century saw an astonishing increase in computing power; today computers are unbelievably faster than they used to be, they have more memory, they can communicate routinely with remote machines all over the world - and they can fit on a desktop. But, despite this remarkable progress, the voracity of modem applications and user expectations still pushes technology right to the limit. As hardware engineers build ever-more-powerful machines, so too must software become more sophisticated to keep up. Medium- to large-scale programming projects need teams of people...
The second half of the twentieth century saw an astonishing increase in computing power; today computers are unbelievably faster than they used to be,...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2011, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in September 2011; co-located with CBSoft 2011, the second Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice. The 13 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers presented cover a broad range of foundational and methodological issues in formal methods for the design and analysis of software and hardware systems as well as applications in various domains.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2011, held in Sao Pa...