Formal Description Techniques and Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification

One FDTs Extensions.- 1. An Algebraic Semantics for Message Sequence Chart Documents.- 2. Open Estelle — An FDT for Open Distributed Systems.- 3. A graphical representation and prototype editor for the Formal Description Technique Estelle.- Two Verification 1.- 4. Protocol Feature Interactions.- 5. Limits and possibilities of sequential hashing with supertrace.- Three Test 1.- 6. Fault-oriented Test Generation for Multicast Routing Protocol Design.- 7. Issues in conformance testing : multiple semicontrollable interfaces.- 8. Automatic Test Case Generation of Real Protocols : Framework and Methodology.- 9. Quality of Service in Integrated Networks.- Four Methodology 1.- 10. Enumeration Protocol in Estelle : an exercise in stepwise development.- 11. A Design Methodology for the Formal Specification and Verification of Hypermedia Documents.- Five Methodology 2.- 12. Frameworks by means of virtual types — exemplifed by SDL.- 13. SDL-Pattern based Development of a Communication Subsystem for CAN.- Six Verification 2.- 14. “On-the-fly Instantiation” of Value-passing Processes.- 15. Solving Asynchronous Equations.- 16. Shared Variables and Efficient Synchronization Primitives for Synchronous Symbolic Verifiers.- Seven Case Studies.- 17. SDL specification and verification of universal personal computing : with Object GEODE.- 18. Development of a Validation System based on Formal Description Techniques : Application to an Ada Run Time System.- 19. Full-Automatic Implementation of Protocol Programs for OSI Application Protocols over ROSE.- 20. A Logical Framework for Distributed Systems and Communication Protocols.- Eight Test 2.- 21. Exploiting Symmetry in Protocol Testing.- 22. Towards Automatic Distribution of Testers for Distributed Conformance Testing.- NineHardware/Software Development.- 23. On the Improvement of Estelle Based Automatic Implementations.- 24. Hardware — Software Co-design of embedded telecommunication systems using multiple formalisms for application development.- 25. Hardware synthesis from protocol specifications in LOTOS.- Ten Real-Time & Performance.- 26. Integrating Real Time into Spin : A Prototype Implementation.- 27. CMC : A Tool for Compositional Model-Checking of Real-Time Systems.- 28. TwoTowers: A Tool Integrating Functional and Performance Analysis of Concurrent Systems.- Index of contributors.