Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications [electronic resource] : 15th Brazilian Symposium, SBMF 2012, Natal, Brazil, September 23-28, 2012. Proceedings / edited by Rohit Gheyi, David Naumann.

The Versatile Synchronous Observer.-Ten Years of Automated Code Analysis at Microsoft.-Model Checking Propositional Deontic Temporal Logic via a mu-calculus Characterization.-An approach using the B method to formal verification of PLC programs in an Industrial Setting.-Palytoxin Inhibits the Sodium-Potassium Pump -- An Investigation of an Electrophysiological Model Using Probabilistic Model Checking.-BETA: A B Based Testing Approach.-A Process Algebra Based Strategy for Generating Test Vectors from SCR Specifications.-Specification Patterns for Properties over Reachable States of Graph Grammars.-Refinement, Compositionality, and Model-Driven Engineering -- Identifying hardware failures systematically -- Investigating Time Properties of Interrupt-Driven Programs -- Specifying and Verifying Declarative Fluent Temporal Logic Properties of Workflows -- Composition of Model Transformations: A Categorical Framework -- Verification Rules for Exception Handling in Eiffel -- Sound reduction of persistent sets for deadlock detection in MPI applications -- Alternating-time Temporal Logic in the Calculus of (Co)Inductive Co.