Michael Butler

Jonathan P. Bowen

Egon Börger

Paul Boca

The ABZ 2008 conference was held in London during September 16–18, 2008. The conference aimed at contributing to the cross-fertilization of three rigorous methods that share a common conceptual foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the design and analysis of hardware and so- waresystems,namely,abstractstate machines,B, andZ. It followedonfromthe Dagstuhl seminar on Rigorous Methods for Software Construction and Ana- sis, which was organized in May 2006 by Jean-Raymond Abrial (ETH Zur ¨ ich, Switzerland) and Uwe Gl¨ asser (Simon Fraser University – Burnaby, Canada), and brought together researchers from the ASM and the B community (see: http://www. dagstuhl. de/06191). The conference simultaneously incorporated the 15th International ASM Workshop, the 17th International Conference of Z Users and the 8th Inter- tional Conference on the B Method, which were present with separate Program Committees to select the papers published in separate tracks (see Chapters 2–4 of these proceedings). The conference covered a wide range of researchspanning from theoretical and methodological foundations to tool support and practical applications. It was split into three main parts: – Aone-daycommonprogramoffourinvitedlectures,seeChap. 1ofthesep- ceedings,and the presentationof three papers selected among the submitted contributions – Two days of contributed research papers and short presentations of work in progress, of industrial experience reports and of tool demonstrations, as documented in Chap.

First International Conference, ABZ 2008, London, UK, September 16-18, 2008. Proceedings

Abstract State Machines, B and Z

Popularizarea masivă a serviciilor video‐on‐demand (VoD) din ultimii ani, precum și a producțiilor originale create de aceste companii media a atras după sine o serie de fenomene care transformă vizibil procesul de producție, distribuție și consum specific industriei filmelor seriale. Distribuția digitală eliberează acest proces de constrângerile specifice unei grile de programe liniare, maximizând libertatea creativă a echipei de producție și făcând posibile noi comportamente de consum. În acest context, lucrarea de față explorează modelele narative recurente în filmele seriale create pentru distribuția digitală, dar și relația dintre distribuția producțiilor serializate prin servicii video‐ondemand și vizionarea în maraton. Capitolele teoretice ale studiului introduc conceptele necesare în înțelegerea multiplelor ramificații ale modelului de afaceri pus în practică de serviciile VoD și rezumă stadiul actual al cercetării din domeniu. Astfel, primele patru părți ale lucrării de față discută aspecte precum principiile serializării în producția de televiziune, istoricul tehnologiilor de distribuție care au precedat serviciile de streaming digital, mecanismele de producție, distribuție și consum specifice acestor servicii, precum și caracteristicile narative ale filmelor seriale complexe în contextul evoluției mijloacelor tehnologice.

Producția și consumul filmelor seriale în era digitală

Jawed Siddiqi

Through fundamental contributions from leading researchers, this volume describes the use of formal modeling methods in the areas of requirements, design and validation. The self-contained chapters provide readers with rich background information and a diverse breadth of specialist material.

Formal Methods: State of the Art and New Directions

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference of Abstract State Machines, B and Z, ABZ 2008, held in London, UK, in September 2008. The conference simultaneously incorporated the 15th International ASM Workshop, the 17th International Conference of Z Users and the 8th International Conference on the B Method. The 44 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The conference fosters the cross-fertilization of three rigorous methods for the design and analysis of hardware and software systems - both in academia and industry - namely Abstract State Machines, B, and Z. Covering a wide range of research spanning from theoretical and methodological foundations to tool support and practical applications, the contributions are organized in topical sections on abstract state machines, B papers, Z papers, ABZ short papers, and the papers of the Verified Software Repository Network (VSR-net) workshop.

Paul Boca

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