Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language and Method

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Testing and Inspection

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. An Implementation Framework for Optimizing Test Case Generation Using Model Checking

      • Longhui Chang, Huaikou Miao, Gongzheng Lu

      Pages 3-16

   3. Applying GA with Tabu list for Automatically Generating Test Cases Based on Formal Specification

      • Yuqin Zhou, Taku Sugihara, Yuji Sato

      Pages 17-31

   4. Development of a Software Tool to Support Traceability-Based Inspection of SOFL Specifications

      • Jinghua Zhang, Shaoying Liu

      Pages 32-46

3. Model Checking and Animation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Unified Bounded Model Checking for MSVL

      • Bin Yu, Zhenhua Duan, Cong Tian

      Pages 49-61

   3. An Over-Approximation Forward Analysis for Nested Timed Automata

      • Yunqing Wen, Guoqiang Li, Shoji Yuen

      Pages 62-80

   4. Adopting Variable Dependency in Animation for Presenting the Behaviour of Process

      • Mo Li, Shaoying Liu

      Pages 81-93

4. Education and Verification

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Using Alloy in Introductory Courses of Formal Methods

      • Shin Nakajima

      Pages 97-110

   3. Automatic Verification for Later-Correspondence of Security Protocols

      • Xiaofei Xie, Xiaohong Li, Yang Liu, Li Li, Ruitao Feng, Zhiyong Feng

      Pages 111-126

   4. Combining Separation Logic and Projection Temporal Logic to Reason About Non-blocking Concurrency

      • Xiaoxiao Yang

      Pages 127-144

5. Semantics and Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Formal Semantics of Orc Based on TLA\(^+\)

      • Zhen You, Jinyun Xue, Qimin Hu, Yi Hong

      Pages 147-163

   3. Incremental Points-to Analysis for Java via Edit Propagation

      • Yuting Chen, Qiuwei Shi, Weikai Miao

      Pages 164-178

   4. A Memory Management Mechanism for MSVL

      • Kai Yang, Zhenhua Duan, Cong Tian

      Pages 179-188

6. Back Matter

   Pages 189-189

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language and Method, SOFL+MSVL 2014, held in Luxembourg, Luxembourg, in November 2014. The 12 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on testing and inspection; model checking and animation; education and verification; and semantics and analysis.

• Analysis
• Constraint solving
• Formal engineering methods
• Formal methods
• Formal semantics
• Formal specification
• Formal verification
• Inspection
• Model checking
• Parallel programming
• SOFL - software engineering
• Satisfiability
• Software specification
• Software testing
• Software verification
• Specification
• Tabu list
• Temporal logic
• Testing

• Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

  Shaoying Liu

• Xidian University, Xi’an, China

  Zhenhua Duan

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