This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools, and Applications, SETTA 2018, held in Beijing, China, in September 2018. The 9 full papers presented together with 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The purpose of SETTA is to provide an international forum for researchers and practitioners to share cutting-edge advancements and strengthen collaborations in the field of formal methods and its interoperability with software engineering for building reliable, safe, secure, and smart systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS 2015, held in Pohang, South Korea, in November/December 2015. The 24 regular papers presented together with 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers cover a variety of foundational and practical issues in programming languages and systems and have been organized in topical sections on compilers, separation logic, static analysis and abstract interpretation, Hoare logic and types, functional programming and semantics, model checking, program analysis, medley, and programming models.

Implementations of concurrent objects in programming languages should guarantee linearizability and a progress property. These progress properties describe conditions under which a method call is guaranteed to complete. However, they fail to describe how clients are affected, making it difficult to utilize them in layered and modular program verification. Even worse, none of the existing results applies to concurrent objects with partial methods. Progress of Concurrent Objects examines the progress properties of concurrent objects. It formulates each progress property in terms of contextual refinement so that, when verifying clients of the objects, concrete object implementations can be replaced with their abstractions with certainty, achieving modular verification. For concurrent objects with partial methods, two new progress properties, partial starvation-freedom (PSF) and partial deadlock-freedom (PDF) are described. Finally, a rely-guarantee style program logic LiLi for verifying linearizability and progress together for concurrent objects is introduced. This tutorial is intended for use by researchers and students. It surveys the current state of the topic and introduces the reader to recent advances in a tutorial style that makes the topic accessible to newcomers to the field.