Proceedings of the Sixth Working Formal Methods Symposium

TL;DR

The FROM 2022 symposium showcased recent advances in formal methods, including new theoretical frameworks, tools, and applications in distributed systems, logic, and education, fostering collaboration between researchers and practitioners.

Contribution

It introduces recent research contributions on matching logic, distributed systems, multi-agent systems, and formal methods education presented at the symposium.

Findings

Advances in matching logic for formal definitions.

Applications of formal methods in distributed and multi-agent systems.

Educational approaches to teaching formal methods.

Abstract

It is our pleasure to present the papers of the sixth Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM 2022) held at the "Al. I. Cuza" university of Iasi, Romania on September 19-20, 2022. FROM aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work on formal methods by contributing new theoretical results, methods, techniques, and frameworks, and/or make the formal methods to work by creating or using software tools that apply theoretical contributions. The program committee chose five contributions and four invited presentations, one of which was shared with the co-located 28th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2022). Two of the contributions deal with Matching Logic, an expressive logical framework where the formal definitions of programming languages and other logics can be embedded. Other contributions deal with distributed systems, multi-agent systems, and teaching formal methods. The invited talks present work broadly consistent with these topics.