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SETTA
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Beijing
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China
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Abstract

Formal methods emerged as a disciple area in computer science and software engineering half a century ago&#046; An international community is formed researching, developing and teaching formal theories, techniques and tools for software modeling, specification, design and verification&#046;<br>However, the impact of the theories, techniques and tools on the improvement of qualities of the daily used software systems is far from being convincing to software engineering practitioners&#046; The gap between the development of formal methods and the advances in software technologies is not being seen becoming narrower&#046; More precisely, the relation between formal methods and software technologies is not clearly understood&#046;<br>This is clearly reflected by the challenges in application of formal techniques and tool in engineering large&#8211;scale systems with multi&#8211;dimensional complexities&#046; Large systems include Cyber&#8211;Physical Systems (CPS), Networks of Things, Enterprise Systems, Cloud&#8211;Based Systems, etc&#046;<br>This background is the motivation of this Symposium on Foundations, Practice and Trends in Formal Software Engineering Methods&#046; The theme of the symposium is to promote research sharing, exchange of ideas and discussions on<br>Theories, techniques, tools and their applications, the understanding on their impacts, weakness and what practical problems in software design they can solve effectively&#046;<br>Relations and common foundations of difference theoretical frameworks and their techniques so as to scale up their application to handle complex system design and verification;<br>"Big and bold" ideas about how to make it more relevant to engineering practitioners by advancing formal methods research and development and improving education;<br>Research and experiments on domain specific applications of formal techniques and tools&#046;<br>