This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2010, held in Natal, Brazil, in November 2010. The 18 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers presented cover a broad range of foundational and methodological issues in formal methods for the design and analysis of software and hardware systems as well as applications in various domains.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2013, held in Brasilia, Brazil, in September/October 2013. The 14 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers presented cover a broad range of foundational and methodological issues in formal methods for the design and analysis of software and hardware systems as well as applications in various domains.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2020, which was supposed to take place in Ouro Preto, Brazil, in November 2020. Instead the symposium took place virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 10 regular papers presented together with 3 invited talks in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as: experience reports; models, languages and semantics; and software product lines. Chapter ‘Safety Assurance of a High Voltage Controller for an Industrial Robotic System’ is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2013, held in Brasilia, Brazil, in September/October 2013. The 14 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers presented cover a broad range of foundational and methodological issues in formal methods for the design and analysis of software and hardware systems as well as applications in various domains.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2012, held in Natal, Brazil, in September 2012; co-located with CBSoft 2012, the Third Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice. The 14 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers presented cover a broad range of foundational and methodological issues in formal methods for the design and analysis of software and hardware systems as well as applications in various domains.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2017, which took place in Recifel, Brazil, in November/December 2017.The 16 papers presented together with three invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: formal methods integration and experience reports; model checking; refinement and verification; and semantics and languages. The chapter 'Rapidly Adjustable Non-Intrusive Online Monitoring for Multi-core Systems' is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2016, which took place in Natal, Brazil, in November 2016. The 12 papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: analysis and verification; modeling and logic; and model checking.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2011, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in September 2011; co-located with CBSoft 2011, the second Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice. The 13 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers presented cover a broad range of foundational and methodological issues in formal methods for the design and analysis of software and hardware systems as well as applications in various domains.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2018, which took place in Salvador, Brazil, in November 2018. The 16 regular papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as: techniques and methodologies; specification and modeling languages; theoretical foundations; verification and validation; experience reports regarding teaching formal methods; and applications.Chapter “TeSSLa: Temporal Stream-Based Specification Language” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2023, held in Manaus, Brazil, during December 4-8, 2023. The 7 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The papers are divided into the following topical sections: specification and modeling languages; testing; and verification and validation.