Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems V, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002 IFIP TC6 / WG6.1 Fifth International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS 2002) March 20–22, 2002, Enschede, The Netherlands IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series, Vol. 81

Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems V brings together research in three important and related fields:

• Formal methods;
• Distributed systems;
• Object-based technology.

Such a convergence is representative of recent advances in the field of distributed systems, and provides links between several scientific and technological communities. The wide scope of topics covered in this volume range in subject from UML to object-based languages and calculi and security, and in approach from specification to case studies and verification.
This volume comprises the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS 2002), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Enschede, The Netherlands in March 2002.

Software Model Checking: The Bandera approach.- Verifying Authentication Protocol Implementations.- A Semantic Framework for Specifying and Reasoning about Composable Distributed Middleware Services.- Formal Semantics for Interacting UML Subsystems.- A Compositional Formalism for Object Viewpoints.- Interpreting ODP Viewpoint Specification: Observations from a Case Study.- Checking Behavioural Subtypes via Refinement.- Behavioural Subtyping and Property Preservation for Active Objects.- A Formal Service Specification for HOP Based on ISO/IEC 14752.- Mobile Objects “Must” Move Safely.- A Theory of May Testing for Actors.- Computer-Aided Specification and Verification of Annotated Object-Oriented Programs.- Foinial Analysis of Suzuki & Kasami Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm.- Control Flow Analysis of Mobile Ambients with Security Boundaries.- Generating Adapters for Concurrent Component Protocol Synchronisation.- A Feature Manager Approach to the Analysis of Component-Interactions.- Supporting Collaborative Design.- A Visual Modeling Framework for Distributed Object Computing.- Author Index.