Abbrevation
WADT
City
Schloss Etelsen
Country
Germany
Deadline Paper
Start Date
End Date
Abstract

<span class="Apple&#8211;style&#8211;span" style="border&#8211;collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font&#8211;family: &#8242;Times New Roman&#8242;; font&#8211;style: normal; font&#8211;variant: normal; font&#8211;weight: normal; letter&#8211;spacing: normal; line&#8211;height: normal; orphans: 2; text&#8211;indent: 0px; text&#8211;transform: none; white&#8211;space: normal; widows: 2; word&#8211;spacing: 0px; font&#8211;size: medium;"><span class="Apple&#8211;style&#8211;span" style="font&#8211;family: sans&#8211;serif; text&#8211;align: justify;"><p class="body">The 20th WADT will take place in Etelsen, near Bremen, Germany&#046; The 20th edition hence will geographically go "back to the roots"&#046;</p><h3 class="pagetitle" style="font&#8211;weight: bold; background&#8211;color: white; font&#8211;size: 1&#046;1em;">Aims and scope:</h3><p class="body">The algebraic approach to system specification encompasses many aspects of the formal design of software systems&#046; Originally born as formal method for reasoning about abstract data types, it now covers new specification frameworks and programming paradigms (such as object&#8211;oriented, aspect&#8211;oriented, agent&#8211;oriented, logic and higher&#8211;order functional programming) as well as a wide range of application areas (including information systems, concurrent, distributed and mobile systems)&#046;</p><h3 class="pagetitle" style="font&#8211;weight: bold; background&#8211;color: white; font&#8211;size: 1&#046;1em;">Topics of interest:</h3><p class="body">Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are:</p><ul style="list&#8211;style&#8211;position: inside;"><li>Foundations of algebraic specification</li><li>Other approaches to formal specification, including process calculi and models of concurent, distributed and mobile computing</li><li>Specification languages, methods, and environments</li><li>Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques</li><li>Model&#8211;driven development</li><li>Graph transformations, term rewriting and proof systems</li><li>Integration of formal specification techniques</li><li>Formal testing and quality assurance</li><li>Validation and verification</li></ul></span></span>