Formal Methods for Components and Objects: 8th International Symposium, FMCO 2009, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 4-6, 2009. Revised Selected Papers

All modern industries rely on large and complex software systems. In order to

construct such large systems in a systematic manner, the focus of the development

methodologies has switched in the last two decades from functional to structural

issues. Formal methods have been applied successfully to the verification of

medium-sized programs in protocol and hardware design. However, their application

to the development of large systems requires a greater emphasis on specification,

modeling, and validation techniques supporting the concepts of reusability and

modifiability, and their implementation in new extensions of existing programming

languages like Java.

This state-of-the-art survey presents the outcome of the 8th Symposium on Formal

Methods for Components and Objects, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in

November 2009. The volume contains 17 revised contributions submitted after the

symposium by speakers from each of the following European IST projects: the

IST-FP6 project BIONETS on biologically inspired services evolution for the

pervasive age; the IST-FP7 project COMPAS on compliance-driven models, languages,

and architectures for services; the IST-FP6 project CREDO on modelling and

analysis of evolutionary structures for distributed services; the IST-FP7 DEPLOY

on industrial deployment of advanced system engineering methods for high

productivity and dependability; the IST-FP7 project HATS on highly adaptable and

trustworthy software using formal methods; the IST-FP7 project INESS on integrated

European railway signalling system; the IST-FP7 project MOGENTES on model-based

generation of tests for dependable embedded systems; the IST-FP6 project PROTEST

on property based testing; and the IST-FP7 project QUASIMODO on quantitative

system properties in model-driven-design of embedded systems.