Formal Methods and Software Engineering 12th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2010, Shanghai, China, November 17-19, 2010, Proceedings

Formal methods have made signi?cant progress in recent years with succe- ful stories from Microsoft (SLAM project), Intel (i7 processor veri?cation) and NICTA/OK-Lab (formal veri?cation of an OS kernel). The main focus of f- malengineeringmethodsliesinhowformalmethodscanbee?ectivelyintegrated intomainstreamsoftwareengineering.Variousadvancedtheories,techniquesand tools havebeen proposed, developed and applied in the speci?cation, design and veri?cation of software or in the construction of software. The challenge now is how to integrate them into engineering development processes to e?ectively deal with large-scale and complex computer systems for their correct and - ?cient construction and maintenance. This requires us to improve the state of the art by researching e?ective approaches and techniques for integration of f- mal methods into industrial engineering practice, including new and emerging practice. Thisseries,InternationalConferencesonFormalEngineeringMethods,brings together those interested in the application of formal engineering methods to computer systems. This volume contains the papers presented at ICFEM 2010, the 12th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, held November 17–19, in Shanghai, China, in conjunction with the Third Inter- tional Symposium on Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP 2010). The Program Committee received 114 submissions from 29 countries and - gions. Each paper was reviewed by at least three program committee members.