TAPSOFT '93: Theory and Practice of Software Development

This volume contains the proceedings of the fourth§International Joint Conference on the Theory and Practice of§Software Development, TAPSOFT '93. Since the first in 1985,§the aim of these conferences has been to bring together§theoretical computer scientists and researchers in software§engineering with a view to discussing how formal methods can§usefully be applied in software development.§TAPSOFT '93 consists ofthree parts: an advanced seminar,§the Colloquium on Trees in Algebra and Programming (CAAP),§and the Colloquium on Formal Approaches of SoftwareEngineering (FASE). The advanced seminar includes four§invited surveys and four invited conferences. The selected§papers for CAAP are organized in seven sessions:§specifications and proofs, concurrency, automata and§counting, constraints solving, rewriting, logic and trees,§analysis of algorithms, and a common session with FASE on§type inference. The selected papers for FASE are presented§in eight sessions: case studies in formal design and§development, compositionality modules and development,§formal development, foundations and analysis of formal§specifications, verification of concurrent systems, model§checking, parallel calculus, and a common session with CAAP§on type inference.