Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2007, held in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, November 14-15, 2007. This book includes papers that are organized in topical sections on security and knowledge, embedded systems, testing, automated analysis, hardware and concurrency.

Invited Talks.- A System Development Process with Event-B and the Rodin Platform.- Challenges in Software Certification.- Security and Knowledge.- Integrating Formal Methods with System Management.- Formal Engineering of XACML Access Control Policies in VDM++.- A Verification Framework for Agent Knowledge.- Embedded Systems.- From Model-Based Design to Formal Verification of Adaptive Embedded Systems.- Machine-Assisted Proof Support for Validation Beyond Simulink.- VeSTA: A Tool to Verify the Correct Integration of a Component in a Composite Timed System.- Testing.- Integrating Specification-Based Review and Testing for Detecting Errors in Programs.- Testing for Refinement in CSP.- Reducing Test Sequence Length Using Invertible Sequences.- Automated Analysis.- Model Checking with SAT-Based Characterization of ACTL Formulas.- Automating Refinement Checking in Probabilistic System Design.- Model Checking in Practice: Analysis of Generic Bootloader Using SPIN.- Model Checking Propositional Projection Temporal Logic Based on SPIN.- Hardware.- A Denotational Semantics for Handel-C Hardware Compilation.- Automatic Generation of Verified Concurrent Hardware.- Modeling and Verification of Master/Slave Clock Synchronization Using Hybrid Automata and Model-Checking.- Concurrency.- Efficient Symbolic Execution of Large Quantifications in a Process Algebra.- Formalizing SANE Virtual Processor in Thread Algebra.- Calculating and Composing Progress Properties in Terms of the Leads-to Relation.- Erratum.- Erratum to: Challenges in Software Certification.

GPSR Compliance The European Union's (EU) General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) is a set of rules that requires consumer products to be safe and our obligations to ensure this. If you have any concerns about our products you can contact us on ProductSafety@springernature.com. In case Publisher is established outside the EU, the EU authorized representative is: Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH Europaplatz 3 69115 Heidelberg, Germany ProductSafety@springernature.com