This book brings together a selection of the best papers from the sixteenth edition of the
Forum on specification and Design Languages Conference (FDL) which was held in September 2013
in Paris France. FDL is a well-established international forum devoted to dissemination of
research results practical experiences and new ideas in the application of specification
design and verification languages to the design modeling and verification of integrated
circuits complex hardware software embedded systems and mixed-technology systems.
