Abstract State Machines 2003, Advances in Theory and Practice: Advances in Theory and Practice ; 10th International Workshop, Asm 2003, Taormina, Italy, March 2003 : Proceedings

by Brger, E.; Gargantini, Angelo; Gargantini, A.; Riccobene, E.

• ISBN13: 9783540006244
• ISBN10: 3540006249
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Abstract State Machines, ASM 2003, held in Taormina, Italy in March 2003. The 16 revised full papers presented together with 8 invited papers and 12 abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers reflect the state of the art of the abstract state machine method for the design and analysis of complex software/hardware systems. Besides theoretical results and methodological progress, application in various fields are studied as well.

Table of Contents

Software Testing Research and Practice	p. 1
Abstract State Processes	p. 22
Recent Advances in Refinement	p. 33
Partial Updates Exploration II	p. 57
Experiments with Test Case Generation and Runtime Analysis	p. 87
A Framework for Proving Contract-Equipped Classes	p. 108
Mobile UNITY Schemas for Agent Coordination	p. 126
UML and Concurrency	p. 151
A Unified Formal Specification and Analysis to the New Java Memory Models	p. 166
Modelling Conditional Knowledge Discovery and Belief Revision by Abstract State Machines	p. 186
Formal Description of a Distributed Location Service for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks	p. 204
Remarks on Turbo ASMs for Functional Equations and Recursion Schemes	p. 218
Integrating UML Static Dynamic Views and Formalizing the Interaction Mechanism of UML State Machines	p. 229
The Hidden Computation Steps of Turbo Abstract State Machines	p. 244
Using Spin to Generate Tests from ASM Specifications	p. 263
Interfacing ASM with the MDG Tool	p. 278
ASMs versus Natural Semantics: A Comparison with New Insights	p. 293
Quantum Computing and Abstract State Machines	p. 309
Consistent Integration for Sequential Abstract State Machines	p. 324
Deciding the Verification Problem for Abstract State Machines	p. 341
An ASM Semantics of UML Derived from the Meta-model and Incorporating Actions	p. 356
Privacy, Abstract Encryption and Protocols: An ASM Model - Part I	p. 372
A Framework for Modeling the Semantics of Expression Evaluation with Abstract State Machines	p. 391
Using AsmL for Runtime Verification	p. 407
Modeling Information Services on the Basis of ASM Semantics	p. 408
Designing the Parlay Call-Control Using ASMs	p. 411
Test Case Generation from AsmL Specifications	p. 413
Teaching ASMs, Teaching with ASMs: Opportunities in Undergraduate Education	p. 414
Using ASM Specifications for Compiler Testing	p. 415
ASMs as Integration Platform towards Verification and Validation of Distributed Production Control Systems at Multiple Levels of Abstraction	p. 416
AsmL Specification of a Ptolemy II Scheduler	p. 417
ASM Specification of Database Systems	p. 418
The Computable Kernel of ASM	p. 421
A Non-Standard Approach to Operational Semantics for Timed Systems	p. 423
Parallelism versus Nondeterminism: On the Semantics of Abstract State Machines	p. 425
Author Index	p. 427
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