Ebook: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 5th International Conference, TACAS’99 Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS’99 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 22–28, 1999 Proceedings

ETAPS’99 is the second instance of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. ETAPS is an annual federated conference that was established in 1998 by combining a number of existing and new conferences. This year it comprises ve conferences (FOSSACS, FASE, ESOP, CC, TACAS), four satellite workshops (CMCS, AS, WAGA, CoFI), seven invited lectures, two invited tutorials, and six contributed tutorials. The events that comprise ETAPS address various aspects of the system - velopment process, including speci cation, design, implementation, analysis and improvement. The languages, methodologies and tools which support these - tivities are all well within its scope. Dieren t blends of theory and practice are represented, with an inclination towards theory with a practical motivation on one hand and soundly-based practice on the other. Many of the issues involved in software design apply to systems in general, including hardware systems, and the emphasis on software is not intended to be exclusive.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS'99, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in March 1999 as part of ETAPS'99. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 82 submissions. Also included are one invited paper, a position statement, and one ETAPS tool demonstration. The papers are organized in topical sections on real-time systems, case studies, compositionality and abstraction, symbolic analysis, process algebras, frameworks for system construction and analysis, and tool descriptions.