Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Formal Engineering Approaches to Software Components and Architectures

TL;DR

The workshop focuses on formal methods and modeling techniques to improve software system design, analysis, and correctness, especially for complex, interconnected, and cyber-physical systems, emphasizing automation and practical benefits.

Contribution

It highlights recent advances and challenges in applying formal and semi-formal techniques to software engineering, particularly in the context of complex and cyber-physical systems.

Findings

Increased importance of formal methods for system correctness.

Application of modeling techniques to cyber-physical systems.

Focus on automating analysis and design processes.

Abstract

The aim of the FESCA workshop is to bring together junior researchers from formal methods, software engineering, and industry interested in the development and application of formal modelling approaches as well as associated analysis and reasoning techniques with practical benefits for software engineering. In recent years, the growing importance of functional correctness and the increased relevance of system quality properties (e.g. performance, reliability, security) have stimulated the emergence of analytical and modelling techniques for the design and development of software systems. With the increasing complexity and utilization of today's software systems, FESCA aims at addressing two research questions: (1) what role is played by the software design phase in the systematic addressing of the analytical and modelling challenges, and (2) how can formal and semi-formal techniques be effectively applied to make the issues easier to address automatically, with lower human intervention. We encourage submissions on (semi-)formal techniques and their application that aid analysis, design and implementation of software applications, especially those employed in interconnected, communicating devices, devices interacting with the physical world, and cyber-physical systems.