Proceedings Fifth Workshop on Models for Formal Analysis of Real Systems

TL;DR

The MARS 2022 workshop proceedings focus on formal modeling of complex real systems across various domains, emphasizing large case studies and detailed modeling practices over verification results.

Contribution

This volume compiles research on formal models for real systems, highlighting large-scale case studies and detailed modeling techniques across diverse application areas.

Findings

Emphasis on large, real-world case studies.

Importance of detailed modeling over verification.

Cross-disciplinary approaches to formal modeling.

Abstract

This volume contains the proceedings of MARS 2022, the fifth workshop on Models for Formal Analysis of Real Systems, held as part of ETAPS 2022, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. The MARS workshops bring together researchers from different communities who are developing formal models of real systems in areas where complex models occur, such as networks, cyber-physical systems, hardware/software co-design, biology, etc. The motivation and aim for MARS stem from the following two observations: * Large case studies are essential to show that specification formalisms and modelling techniques are applicable to real systems, whereas many research papers only consider toy examples or tiny case studies. * Developing an accurate model of a real system takes a large amount of time, often months or years. In most scientific papers, however, salient details of the model need to be skipped due to lack of space, and to leave room for formal verification methodologies and results. The MARS workshops aim at remedying these issues, emphasising modelling over verification, so as to retain lessons learnt from formal modelling, which are not usually discussed elsewhere.