KORSO: Methods, Languages, and Tools for the Construction of Correct Software

Correct software: From experiments to applications.- A method for the development of correct software.- Realizing sets by hash tables.- Event automata as a generic model of reactive systems.- On object-oriented design and verification.- Design of modular software systems with reuse.- AVL trees revisited: A case study in Spectrum.- KORSO reference languages concepts and application domains.- How to cope with the Spectrum of Spectrum.- A fine-grain sort discipline and its application to formal program construction.- TROLL light - The language and its development environment.- Formalization of algebraic specification in the development language Deva.- Construction and deduction methods for the formal development of software.- Experiences with a specification environment.- Towards correct, efficient and reusable transformational developments.- The verification system Tatzelwurm.- Seduct - A proof compiler for first order logic.- Traverdi - Transformation and verification of distributed systems.- The Kiv-approach to software verification.- Three selected case studies in verification.- Case study "production cell": A comparative study in formal specification and verification.- The Korso case study for software engineering with formal methods: A medical information system.

Dr. rer. nat. Manfred Broy studierte Mathematik und Informatik 1971-76 an der Technischen Universität München. Dort 1976-80 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Sonderforschungsbereich 49 'Programmiertechnik' der DFG. 1980 Promotion, ab 1980 wisschenschaftlicher Assistent und 1982 Habilitation in Informatik an der TU München. 1983 ordentlicher Professor für Informatik und Gründungsdekan an der Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik der Universität Passau. Seit 1989 ordentlicher Professor für Informatik an der TU München. 1994 Leibniz-Preis der DFG.