Priority Program SoftSpez and the International INT Workshops “Integration of Software Specification Techniques for Applications in Engineering” (DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm SoftSpez und die internationalen INT-Workshops „Integration von Techniken der Softwarespezifikation für ingenieurwissenschaftliche Anwendungen“)

Abstract

Abstract The research area “Integration of Software Specification Techniques for Applications in Engineering” has been subject of the Priority Program SoftSpez of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the years 1998–2004 and of the international INT workshops as satellite events of the ETAPS conferences in 2000, 2002, and 2004. In this paper, we present an overview of aims, organization, and results of these activities. Moreover, we present an example for the integration of specification techniques in software engineering and industrial control systems developed within the project IOSIP of SoftSpez.