Constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering, FSEN 2011, held in Tehran, Iran, in April 2011. This title features papers organized in topical section on models of programs and systems, software specification, validation and verification, and more.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th IPM International Conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering, FSEN 2013, held in Tehran, Iran, in April 2013. The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The topics of interest in FSEN span over all aspects of formal methods, especially those related to advancing the application of formal methods in software industry and promoting their integration with practical engineering techniques.

This book constitutes revised selected papers of the 8th International Workshop on Formal Aspects of Component Software, FACS 2011, held in Oslo, Norway in September 2011. The 18 full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. They cover the topics of formal models for software components and their interaction, design and verification methods for software components and services, formal methods and modeling languages for components and services, industrial or experience reports, and case studies, autonomic components and...