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Theories of Programming and Formal Methods

Essays Dedicated to Jifeng He on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

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Editors:
  1. Zhiming Liu

    1. International Institute for Software Technology, United Nations University, Macau, China

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  2. Jim Woodcock

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, UK

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  3. Huibiao Zhu

    1. Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

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  • Contains a selection of papers on formal methods and software engineering
  • Dedicated to 70th birthday of He Jifeng a professor at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8051)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Set-Theoretic Models of Computations

    • Jean-Raymond Abrial
    Pages 1-22

  3. Model-Based Mutation Testing of Reactive Systems

    • Bernhard K. Aichernig
    Pages 23-36

  4. Pliant Modalities in Hybrid Event-B

    • Richard Banach
    Pages 37-53

  5. A Relational Approach to an Algebraic Community: From Paul Erdős to He Jifeng

    • Jonathan P. Bowen
    Pages 54-66

  6. Practical Theory Extension in Event-B

    • Michael Butler, Issam Maamria
    Pages 67-81

  7. Simulink Timed Models for Program Verification

    • Ana Cavalcanti, Alexandre Mota, Jim Woodcock
    Pages 82-99

  8. Concept Analysis Based Approach to Statistical Web Testing

    • Chao Chen, Huaikou Miao, Yihai Chen
    Pages 100-117

  9. Algebraic Program Semantics for Supercomputing

    • Yifeng Chen
    Pages 118-135

  10. Modeling and Specification of Real-Time Interfaces with UTP

    • Hung Dang Van, Hoang Truong
    Pages 136-150

  11. Some Fixed-Point Issues in PPTL

    • Zhenhua Duan, Qian Ma, Cong Tian, Nan Zhang
    Pages 151-165

  12. The Value-Passing Calculus

    • Yuxi Fu
    Pages 166-195

  13. Proving Safety of Traffic Manoeuvres on Country Roads

    • Martin Hilscher, Sven Linker, Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog
    Pages 196-212

  14. Generic Models of the Laws of Programming

    • Tony Hoare
    Pages 213-226

  15. Ours Is to Reason Why

    • Cliff B. Jones, Leo Freitas, Andrius Velykis
    Pages 227-243

  16. Optimal Bounds for Multiweighted and Parametrised Energy Games

    • Line Juhl, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Jean-François Raskin
    Pages 244-255

  17. On the Relationship between LTL Normal Forms and Büchi Automata

    • Jianwen Li, Geguang Pu, Lijun Zhang, Zheng Wang, Jifeng He, Kim Guldstrand Larsen
    Pages 256-270

  18. Managing Environment and Adaptation Risks for the Internetware Paradigm

    • Jian Lü, Yu Huang, Chang Xu, Xiaoxing Ma
    Pages 271-284

  19. Safety versus Security in the Quality Calculus

    • Hanne Riis Nielson, Flemming Nielson
    Pages 285-303

  20. Invariants Synthesis over a Combined Domain for Automated Program Verification

    • Shengchao Qin, Guanhua He, Wei-Ngan Chin, Hongli Yang
    Pages 304-325
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About this book

This Festschrift volume, dedicated to He Jifeng on the occasion of his 70th birthday in September 2013, includes 24 refereed papers by leading researchers, current and former colleagues, who congratulated at a celebratory symposium held in Shanghai, China, in the course of the 10th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2013. The papers cover a broad spectrum of subjects, from foundational and theoretical topics to programs and systems issues and to applications, comprising formal methods, software and systems modeling, semantics, laws of programming, specification and verification, as well as logics. He Jifeng is known for his seminal work in the theories of programming and formal methods for software engineering. He is particularly associated with Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) , the theory of data refinement and the laws of programming, and the rCOS formal method for object and component system construction. His book on UTP with Tony Hoare has been widely read and followed by a large number of researchers, and it has been used in many postgraduate courses. He was a senior researcher at Oxford during 1984-1998, and then a senior research fellow at the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST) in Macau during 1998-2005. He has been a professor and currently the Dean of the Institute of Software Engineering at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. In 2005, He Jifeng was elected as an academician to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of York. He won a number of prestigious science and technology awards, including a 2nd prize of Natural Science Award from the State Council of China, a 1st prize of Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education of China, a 1st prize of Technology Innovation from the Ministry of Electronic Industry, and a number awards from Shanghai government.

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Institute for Software Technology, United Nations University, Macau, China

    Zhiming Liu

  • Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, UK

    Jim Woodcock

  • Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Huibiao Zhu

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Theories of Programming and Formal Methods

  • Book Subtitle: Essays Dedicated to Jifeng He on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

  • Editors: Zhiming Liu, Jim Woodcock, Huibiao Zhu

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39698-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-39697-7Published: 31 July 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-39698-4Published: 24 July 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 413

  • Number of Illustrations: 86 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Theory of Computation, Software Engineering, Simulation and Modeling

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