Software and systems safety : specification and verification / edited by Manfred Broy, Christian Leuxner and Tony Hoare.

"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Software and Systems Safety: Specification and Verification, Marktoberdorf, Germany, 3-15 August 2010"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references at chapter ends, and indexes.

Model-based testing / Mark Timmer, Ed Brinksma and Mariëlle Stoelinga -- Towards a theory of architectural contracts : schemes and patterns of assumption/promise based system specification / Manfred Broy -- Engineering evolving and self-adaptive systems: an overview / Carlo Ghezzi -- Formal verification / John Harrison -- Requirements models for critical systems / Constance Heitmeyer -- From concurrency models to numbers : performance and dependability / Holger Hermanns and Lijun Zhang -- Unifying models of data flow / Tony Hoare and John Wickerson -- Model-based verification and analysis for real-time systems / Uli Fahrenberg, Kim G. Larsen and Claus Thrane -- Model checking / Doron Peled.

Information security depends upon an understanding of the functionality of software systems. Customers and information can only be protected from attack if this functionality is guaranteed to be correct and safe. A scientific foundation of software engineering not only provides models enabling the capture of application domains and requirements, but also ensures an understanding of the structure and working of software systems, architectures and programs. This book presents contributions based on the lectures delivered at the 31st International Summer School: Software and Systems Safety: Specification and Verification held at Marktoberdorf, Germany, in August 2010, and provides an excellent overview of current research results with special emphasis on software information security. Leading international researchers and experts present their experience in the specification and verification of software systems, accompanied by corresponding tools and methods. Subjects addressed include: model-based testing, schemes and patterns of assumption/promise-based system specification, requirements models for critical systems, engineering evolving and self-adaptive systems, unifying models of data flow, model-based verification and analysis of real-time systems, and model checking. The book will be of interest to all those dealing with information systems for whom security is of paramount importance.

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