This IFIP report is a collection of fundamental, high-quality contributions on the algebraic foundations of system specification. The contributions cover and survey active topics and recent advances, and address such subjects as: the role of formal specification, algebraic preliminaries, partiality, institutions, specification semantics, structuring, refinement, specification languages, term rewriting, deduction and proof systems, object specification, concurrency, and the development process. The authors are well-known experts in the field, and the book is the result of IFIP WG 1.3 in cooperation with Esprit Basic Research WG COMPASS, and provides the foundations of the algebraic specification language CASL designed in the CoFI project. For students, researchers, and system developers.

FIDJI 2003 was an international forum for researchers and practitioners in- rested in the advances in, and applications of, software engineering for distri- ted applicationdevelopment. Concerningthe technologies, the workshopfocused on "Java-related" technologies. It was an opportunity to present and observe the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas. Allpaperssubmittedtothisworkshopwerereviewedbyatleasttwomembers of the International Program Committee. Acceptance was based primarily on originality and contribution. We selected, for these post-workshop proceedings, 14 papers, amongst 29 submitted, two tutorials, and one keynote talk. FIDJI2003aimedatpromotingascienti?capproachtosoftwareengineering. The scope of the workshop included the following topics: - design of distributed Java applications - Java-related technologies - software and system architecture engineering and development methodo- gies - development methodologies for UML - development methodologies for reliable distributed systems - component-based development methodologies - managementofevolutions/iterationsintheanalysis, design, implementation, and test phases - dependability support during system life-cycles - managing inconsistencies during application development - atomicity and exception handling in system development - software architectures, frameworks, and design patterns for developing d- tributed systems - integration of formal techniques in the development process - formal analysis and grounding of modeling notation and techniques (e. g., UML, metamodeling) - supporting the security requirements of distributed applications in the - velopment process - refactoring methods - industrial and academic case studies - development and analysis tools The organization of such a workshop represents an important amount of work.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the International Workshop on Scientific Engineering for Distributed Java Applications, FIDJI 2002, held in Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg in November 2002. The 16 revised full papers presented together with a keynote paper and 3 abstracts were carefully selected from 33 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. Among the topics addressed are Java coordination, Web service architectures, transaction models, CORBA-based distributed systems, mobile objects, Java group toolkits, distributed process management systems, active objects in J2EE, Java frameworks, Jini, component-based distributed applications, Java middleware, fault-tolerant mobile systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE'98, held as part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS'98, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in March/April 1998.
Besides two invited presentations and three system demonstrations, this volume presents 18 revised full papers selected from a total of 59 submissions. Among the various fundamental software engineering issues addressed are formal methods, specification languages, refinement, object-oriented modeling, software architectures, statecharts, model checking, etc.

This volume comprises the invited surveys and revised versions of the submitted papers selected for presentation at the 10th Workshop on Specification of Abstract Data Types, held jointly with the 4th COMPASS Workshop in S. Margherita, Italy in June 1994.
The volume gives a comprehensive state-of-the-art report of the research activities: besides classical algebraic techniques, other relevant topics are investigated, such as formalisms based on general logics and category theory, type systems for specification languages and new structures for modelling dynamic systems. In addition to four surveys by prominent leaders in the area and 23 papers presenting original research, the book contains an annotated bibliography covering all contributions to the ten editions of the workshop.