Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, and Z

1. Front Matter

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2. The Rodin Platform Has Turned Ten

   • Laurent Voisin, Jean-Raymond Abrial

   Pages 1-8

3. Development of a Verified Flash File System

   • Gerhard Schellhorn, Gidon Ernst, Jörg Pfähler, Dominik Haneberg, Wolfgang Reif

   Pages 9-24

4. Why Amazon Chose TLA + 

   • Chris Newcombe

   Pages 25-39

5. Translating B to TLA +  for Validation with TLC

   • Dominik Hansen, Michael Leuschel

   Pages 40-55

6. αRby—An Embedding of Alloy in Ruby

   • Aleksandar Milicevic, Ido Efrati, Daniel Jackson

   Pages 56-71

7. MAZE: An Extension of Object-Z for Multi-Agent Systems

   • Graeme Smith, Qin Li

   Pages 72-85

8. Quasi-Lexicographic Convergence

   • Stefan Hallerstede

   Pages 86-100

9. Towards B as a High-Level Constraint Modelling Language

   • Michael Leuschel, David Schneider

   Pages 101-116

10. Analysis of Self-⋆ and P2P Systems Using Refinement

    • Manamiary Bruno Andriamiarina, Dominique Méry, Neeraj Kumar Singh

    Pages 117-123

11. B Formal Validation of ERTMS/ETCS Railway Operating Rules

    • Rahma Ben Ayed, Simon Collart-Dutilleul, Philippe Bon, Akram Idani, Yves Ledru

    Pages 124-129

12. Modelling Energy Consumption in Embedded Systems with VDM-RT

    • José Antonio Esparza Isasa, Peter Würtz Vinther Jørgensen, Claus Ballegård Nielsen, Stefan Hallerstede

    Pages 130-135

13. Sealed Containers in Z

    • Eerke Boiten, Jeremy Jacob

    Pages 136-141

14. Specifying Transaction Control to Serialize Concurrent Program Executions

    • Egon Börger, Klaus-Dieter Schewe

    Pages 142-157

15. Distributed Situation Analysis

    • Narek Nalbandyan, Uwe Glässer, Hamed Yaghoubi Shahir, Hans Wehn

    Pages 158-173

16. Introducing Aspect–Oriented Specification for Abstract State Machines

    • Marcel Dausend, Alexander Raschke

    Pages 174-187

17. Modular Refinement for Submachines of ASMs

    • Gidon Ernst, Jörg Pfähler, Gerhard Schellhorn, Wolfgang Reif

    Pages 188-203

18. Towards ASM-Based Formal Specification of Self-Adaptive Systems

    • Elvinia Riccobene, Patrizia Scandurra

    Pages 204-209

19. Distributed ASM - Pitfalls and Solutions

    • Andreas Prinz, Edel Sherratt

    Pages 210-215

20. WebASM: An Abstract State Machine Execution Environment for the Web

    • Simone Zenzaro, Vincenzo Gervasi, Jacopo Soldani

    Pages 216-221

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Abstract State Machines, B, TLA, VDM and Z, which took place in Toulouse, France, in June 2014. The 13 full papers presented together with 3 invited talks and 19 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The ABZ conference series is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of six related state-based and machine-based formal methods: Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z. They share a common conceptual foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the design and analysis of hardware and software systems. The main goal of this conference series is to contribute to the integration of these formal methods, clarifying their commonalities and differences to better understand how to combine different approaches for accomplishing the various tasks in modeling, experimental validation and mathematical verification of reliable high-quality hardware/software systems.

• ASM
• Alloy
• B
• Concurrency
• TLA
• TLA+
• VDM
• Z
• abstract machines
• abstract state machines
• automata theory
• formal languages
• formal methods
• formal verification
• model checking
• models of computation
• temporal logic of actions

• INP-ENSEEIHT/IRIT, Toulouse Cedex 7, France

  Yamine Ait Ameur

• Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Hagenberg, Austria

  Klaus-Dieter Schewe