Formal Methods
A special issue of Computers (ISSN 2073-431X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2016)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: data mining; social media analysis; information networks; biological networks; security and privacy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is devoted to formal methods. Submissions are invited for the following principal themes, but any topics relevant to the field of formal methods and their practical applications will also be considered.
- Formal specification and modeling
- Formal verification and model checking
- Formal approaches to testing
- Formal methods for self-adaptive systems
- Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems
- Formal methods for cloud computing and cyber-physical systems
- Formal methods for software safety, security, reliability and dependability
- Tool development, integration and experiments
Papers describing applications of formal methods in the areas of computer security, biology, and healthcare are also highly relevant.
Dr. Jun Pang
Guest Editor
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