This volume contains the proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logic and Formal Verification (GandALF 2018). The symposium took place in Saarbrücken, Germany, from the 26th to the 28th of September 2018. The GandALF symposium was established by a group of Italian computer scientists interested in mathematical logic, automata theory, game theory, and their applications to the specification, design, and verification of complex systems. Its aim is to provide a forum where people from different areas, and possibly with different backgrounds, can fruitfully interact. GandALF has a truly international spirit, as witnessed by the composition of the program and steering committee and by the country distribution of the submitted papers.
This volume contains the proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logic and Formal Verification (GandALF 2015). The symposium took place in Genoa, Italy, on the 21st and 22nd of September 2015. The proceedings of the symposium contain the abstracts of three invited talks and 13 papers that were accepted after a careful evaluation for presentation at the conference. The topics of the accepted papers cover algorithmic game theory, automata theory, formal verification, and modal and temporal logics.
This volume contains the proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logic and Formal Verification (GandALF 2016). The symposium took place in Catania, Italy, from the 14th to the 16th of September 2016. The proceedings of the symposium contain abstracts of the 3 invited talks and 21 full papers that were accepted after a careful evaluation for presentation at the conference. The topics of the accepted papers cover algorithmic game theory, automata theory, synthesis, formal verification, and dynamic, modal and temporal logics.
This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logic and Formal Verification (GandALF 2014). The symposium took place in Verona, Italy, from 10th to 12th of September 2014. The proceedings of the symposium contain the abstracts of three invited talks and 19 papers that were accepted after a careful evaluation for presentation at the conference. The topics of the accepted papers range over a wide spectrum, including algorithmic and behavioral game theory, game semantics, formal languages and automata theory, modal and temporal logics, software veri…
This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logic and Formal Verification (GandALF 2013). The symposium took place in Borca di Cadore, Italy, from 29th to 31st of August 2013. The proceedings of the symposium contain the abstracts of three invited talks and 17 papers that were accepted after a careful evaluation for presentation at the conference. The topics of the accepted papers range over a wide spectrum, including algorithmic and behavioral game theory, game semantics, formal languages and automata theory, modal and temporal logics, softwa…
This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logic and Formal Verification (GandALF 2021). The aim of GandALF 2021 symposium is to bring together researchers from academia and industry which are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to applications, and stimulate cross-fertilization.
This volume contains the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logic and Formal Verification (GandALF 2022). The aim of GandALF 2022 symposium is to bring together researchers from academia and industry which are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to applications, and stimulate cross-fertilization.
This volume contains a final and revised selection of papers presented at Twelfth Workshop on Developments in Computational Models (DCM 2018) and the Ninth Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems (ITRS 2018), held on July 8, 2018 in Oxford, in affiliation with FLOC 2018.
This volume contains the proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logic and Formal Verification (GandALF 2020). The symposium took place as a fully online event on September 21-22, 2020. The GandALF symposium was established by a group of Italian computer scientists interested in mathematical logic, automata theory, game theory, and their applications to the specification, design, and verification of complex systems. Its aim is to provide a forum where people from different areas, and possibly with different backgrounds, can fruitfully interact. GandALF has a truly i…
This volume contains the proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logic and Formal Verification (GandALF 2019). The symposium took place in Bordeaux, France, from the 2nd to the 3rd of September 2010. The GandALF symposium was established by a group of Italian computer scientists interested in mathematical logic, automata theory, game theory, and their applications to the specification, design, and verification of complex systems. Its aim is to provide a forum where people from different areas, and possibly with different backgrounds, can fruitfully interact. GandAL…
This volume contains the proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logic and Formal Verification (GandALF 2017). The symposium took place in Roma, Italy, from the 20th to the 22nd of September 2017. The GandALF symposium was established by a group of Italian computer scientists interested in mathematical logic, automata theory, game theory, and their applications to the specification, design, and verification of complex systems. Its aim is to provide a forum where people from different areas, and possibly with different backgrounds, can fruitfully interact. GandALF …
This volume constitutes the pre-proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2018), held on 4-6th September 2018 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and co-located with the 20th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP 2018) and the 26th International Workshop on Functional and Logic Programming (WFLP 2018).
This volume contains the Proceedings of the first Symposium on "Games, Automata, Logic, and Formal Verification (GandALF)", held in Minori (Amalfi coast), Italy, 17-18 June 2010. The symposium has been promoted by a number of Italian computer scientists interested in game theory, mathematical logic, automata theory, and their applications to the specification, design, and verification of complex systems. It covers a large spectrum of research topics, ranging from theoretical aspects to concrete applications. Its aim is to provide a forum where people from different areas, and possibly with a d…
This volume constitutes the pre-proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2016), held on 6-8th September 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland UK, and co-located with the 18th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP 2016) and the 23rd Static Analysis Symposium (SAS 2016). After discussion at the symposium papers will go through a second round of refereeing and selection for the formal proceedings.
This volume constitutes the pre-proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2016), held on 10-12th October 2017 in Namur, Belgium, and co-located with the 19th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP 2017). After discussion at the symposium papers will go through a second round of refereeing and selection for the formal proceedings.
This volume contains the Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Games, Automata, Languages, and Formal Verification (GandALF 2011). The conference was held in Minori (Amalfi Coast, Italy), from the 15th to the 17th of June 2011. The aim of the GandALF Symposium is to provide a forum for researchers from different areas and with different background, that share a common interest in game theory, mathematical logic, automata theory, and their applications to the specification, design, and verification of complex systems. This proceedings contain the abstracts of three invited talks …
This volume contains the proceedings of FOCLASA 2010, the 9th International Workshop on the Foundations of Coordination Languages and Software Architectures. FOCLASA 2010 was held in Paris, France on July 30th, 2010 as a satellite event of the 21st International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR 2010. The papers presented in this proceedings tackle different issues that are currently central to our community, namely software adaptation, sensor networks, distributed control, non-functional aspects of coordination such as resources, timing and stochastics.
This volume constitutes the pre-proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2021), held on 7-8th September 2021 as a hybrid (blended) meeting, both in-person (at the Teachers' House in Tallinn, Estonia) and virtual, and co-located with the 23rd International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP 2021). After discussion at the symposium papers will go through a second round of refereeing and selection for the formal proceedings.
This volume constitutes the informal proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2022), held on 21-23rd September 2022 as a hybrid (blended) meeting, both in-person (at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University -TSU- in Tbilisi, Georgia) and virtual, and co-located with the 24th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP 2022) as part of the Computational Logic Autumn Summit 2022 (CLAS 2022).
This volume contains the proceedings of FROM 2019: the Third Symposium on Working Formal Methods, held on September 3-5, 2019 in Timişoara (Romania). 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.
This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logic and Formal Verification (GandALF), held in Naples (Italy) from September 6th to 8th, 2012. GandALF was founded by a number of Italian computer scientists interested in mathematical logic, automata theory, game theory, and their applications to the specification, design, and verification of complex systems. Its aim is to provide a forum where people from different areas, and possibly with different backgrounds, can fruitfully interact. Even though the idea of the symposium emerged within the Ital…
Methods for Modalities is a series aimed at bringing together researchers interested in developing proof methods, verification methods, algorithms and tools based on modal logic. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, dynamic logic, etc. The first workshop was held in May 1999 in Amsterdam, and since then it has travelled the world. Please see https://cs.famaf.unc.edu.ar/~careces/M4M for information on past editions of M4M. The 9th Methods for Modalities Workshop is being held at the India…
This volume contains the proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages (QAPL 2011), held in Saarbrucken, Germany, April 1--3, 2011. QAPL 2011 is a satellite event of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2011). The workshop theme is on quantitative aspects of computation. These aspects are related to the use of physical quantities (storage space, time, bandwidth, etc.) as well as mathematical quantities (e.g. probability and measures for reliability, security and trust), and play an important (sometimes essential) role in …
This volume contains selected papers presented at the 9th International Workshop on Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming, WRS2009, which was held in Brasilia on the 28th June 2009, associated to RTA 2009 (the 20th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications) at RDP, the Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction and Programming. Reduction strategies define which (sub)expression(s) should be selected for evaluation and which rule(s) should be applied. These choices affect fundamental properties of reductions, such as completeness, laziness and efficiency in …
Symbolic computation is the science of computing with symbolic objects (terms, formulae, programs, algebraic objects, geometrical objects, etc). Powerful symbolic algorithms have been developed during the past decades and have played an influential role in theorem proving, automated reasoning, software verification, model checking, rewriting, formalisation of mathematics, network security, Groebner bases, characteristic sets, etc. The international Symposium on "Symbolic Computation in Software Science" is the fourth in the SCSS workshop series. SCSS 2008 and 2010 took place at the Research In…
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…
This volume contains the proceedings of TERMGRAPH 2016, the Ninth International Workshop on Computing with Terms and Graphs which was held on April 8, 2016 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, as a satellite event of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2016).
This volume contains papers presented at the Ninth International Symposium on Symbolic Computation in Software Science, SCSS 2021. Symbolic Computation is the science of computing with symbolic objects (terms, formulae, programs, representations of algebraic objects, etc.). Powerful algorithms have been developed during the past decades for the major subareas of symbolic computation: computer algebra and computational logic. These algorithms and methods are successfully applied in various fields, including software science, which covers a broad range of topics about software construction and a…
This volume contains the proceedings of the ninth workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL2012) which took place in Brussels from the 10th to the 12th of October 2012. QPL2012 brought together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing, and spatio-temporal causal structures. The particular focus was on the use of logical tools, ordered algebraic and category-theoretic structures, formal languages, semantical techniques, and other computer science methods for the study of physical behaviour in general.
This volume contains the papers presented at the 1st workshop on Quantitative Formal Methods: Theory and Applications, which was held in Eindhoven on 3 November 2009 as part of the International Symposium on Formal Methods 2009. This volume contains the final versions of all contributions accepted for presentation at the workshop.
This volume contains the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Verification of Infinite-State Systems (INFINITY 2011). The workshop was held in Taipei, Taiwan on October 10, 2011, as a satellite event to the 9th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA). The INFINITY workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers who are interested in the development of formal methods and algorithmic techniques for the analysis of systems with infinitely many states, and their application in automated verification of complex software and hardware syste…
These proceedings contain the papers presented at the 11th International Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems (WWV 2015), which was held on 23 June 2015 in Oslo, Norway, as a satellite workshop of the 20th International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM 2015). WWV is a yearly interdisciplinary forum for researchers originating from the following areas: declarative, rule-based programming, formal methods, software engineering and web-based systems. The workshop fosters the cross-fertilisation and advancement of hybrid methods from such areas.
This volume contains the proceedings of the Workshop on Quantities in Formal Methods, QFM 2012, held in Paris, France on 28 August 2012. The workshop was affiliated with the 18th Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2012. The focus of the workshop was on quantities in modeling, verification, and synthesis. Modern applications of formal methods require to reason formally on quantities such as time, resources, or probabilities. Standard formal methods and tools have gotten very good at modeling (and verifying) qualitative properties: whether or not certain events will occur. During the last years, th…
This volume contains the proceedings of the 2nd WorkShop on Formal Methods in the Development of Software (WS-FMDS 2012). The workshop was held in Paris, France on August 30th, 2012 as a satellite event to the 18th International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM-2012). The aim of WS-FMDS 2012 is to provide a forum for researchers who are interested in the application of formal methods on systems which are being developing with a software methodology. In particular, this workshop is intended to bring together scientists and practitioners who are active in the area of formal methods and interested…
This volume contains the proceedings of the 2nd French Singaporean Workshop on Formal Methods and Applications (FSFMA'14). The workshop was held in Singapore on May 13th, 2014, as a satellite event of the 19th International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM'14). FSFMA aims at sharing research interests and launching collaborations in the area of formal methods and their applications. The scientific subject of the workshop covers (but is not limited to) areas such as formal specification, model checking, verification, program analysis/transformation, software engineering, and applications in majo…
This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Ninth International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models (DCM 2013) held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 26th August 2013, as a satellite event of CONCUR 2013. Several new models of computation have emerged in the last years, and many developments of traditional computational models have been proposed with the aim of taking into account the new demands of computer systems users and the new capabilities of computation engines. A new computational model, or a new feature in a traditional one, usually is reflected in a new …
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at LFMTP 2019, the 14th International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP), held on June 22, 2019, in Vancouver, Canada. The workshop was affiliated with the Thirty-Fourth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS). Logical frameworks and meta-languages form a common substrate for representing, implementing and reasoning about a wide variety of deductive systems of interest in logic and computer science. Their design, implementation and their use in reasoning tasks, ranging from th…
This volume contains the proceedings of F-IDE 2021, the sixth international workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment, which was held online on May 24-25, 2021, as part of NFM'21, the 13th NASA Formal Methods Symposium. High levels of safety, security and privacy standards require the use of formal methods to specify and develop compliant software (sub)systems. Any standard comes with an assessment process, which requires a complete documentation of the application in order to ease the justification of design choices and the review of code and proofs. Thus tools are needed for hand…
This volume contains the post-proceedings of the second Workshop on Verification of Objects at RunTime EXecution (VORTEX 2018) that was held in Amsterdam, co-located with the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2018) and the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2018). Runtime verification is an approach to software verification which is concerned with monitoring and analysis of software and hardware system executions. Recently, it has gained more consensus as an effective and promising approach to ensure software reliability, bridgin…
