Motivation and Scope
The way services and information are currently delivered to a multitude of end-users is changing impressively thanks to the availability of new technologies (e.g., IoT connectivity, digitalization, and smart devices) and complex computational models (e.g., autonomic, adaptive computing, and artificial intelligence). Many approaches used nowadays to develop such large, complex, advanced software systems are still not able to ensure the correctness and dependability of the delivered products. Emerging technologies and methodologies gain great popularity while some of their aspects are developed ad-hoc, not rigorously, due to the lack of more formal approaches. Nevertheless, unreliable or unpredictable behavior, such as threats to confidentiality and even financial or health danger, cannot be tolerated as society increasingly depends on them.
Assuring safety, security, privacy, performance, trustworthiness and other important qualities of such systems currently represents a challenge that calls for novel rigorous and formal approaches to system design, development, validation, and verification. Indeed, in the digitalized era where physical artifacts are controlled by their Digital Twins, unexpected exposure of users to unwanted behaviors is highly undesirable.
The goal of the workshop is to foster integration between formal methods and software architecture promoting new connections and synergies between the two research communities in order to address the challenges of the upcoming generation of computing systems.
