Formal Techniques For Distributed Systems

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 38th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems, FORTE 2018, held in Madrid, Spain, in June 2018, as part of the 13th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2018. The 10 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The conference is dedicated to fundamental research on theory, models, tools, and applications for distributed systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 39th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems, FORTE 2019, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2019, as part of the 14th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2019. The 15 full and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The conference is dedicated to fundamental research on theory, models, tools, and applications for distributed systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 34th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems, FORTE 2014, held in Berlin, Germany, in June 2014, as part of the 9th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2014. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers present a wide range of topics on specification languages and type systems, monitoring and testing, security analysis and bisimulation, abstraction and reduction.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 35th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems, FORTE 2015, held in Grenoble, France, in June 2015, as part of the 10th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2015. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers present a wide range of topics on distributed computing models and formal specification, testing, and verification methods.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 40th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems, FORTE 2020, held in Valletta, Malta, in June 2020, as part of the 15th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2020.* The 10 full papers and 1 short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The conference is dedicated to fundamental research on theory, models, tools, and applications for distributed systems. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapter ‘Conformance-Based Doping Detection for Cyber-Physical Systems’ is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems, FMOODS 2013, and the 33rd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems, FORTE 2013, held in Florence, Italy, in June 2013, as part of the 8th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2013. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers present a wide range of topics combining theory and practice. They cover distributed computing models and formal specification, testing, and verification methods as well as application domains such as application-level distributed systems, telecommunication services, Internet, embedded and real-time systems, and networking and communication security and reliability.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 36th IFIP WG 6.1International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects,Components, and Systems, FORTE 2016, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in June2016, as part of the 11th International Federated Conference onDistributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2016. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed andselected from 44 submissions. The papers present a wide range of topicson distributed computing models and formal specification, testing, andverification methods.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 37th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems, FORTE 2017, held in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in June 2017, as part of the 12th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2017. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 3 short and 1 tool papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers present a wide range of topics on distributed computing models and formal specification, testing, and verification methods.