The IFIP TC6 WG 6.1 Joint International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and
Distributed Systems FORTE 2002 was held this year at Rice University Houston Texas on
November 11-14. This annual conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from
universities and industry to meet and advance technologies in areas of speci?cation testing
and veri?cation of distributed systems and communication protocols. The main topics are: -
FDT-based system and protocol engineering. - Semantical foundations. - Extensions of FDTs. -
Formal approaches to concurrent distributed object-oriented systems. - Real-time and
probability aspects. - Performance modeling and analysis. - Quality of service modeling and
analysis. - Veri?cation and validation. - Relations between informal and formal speci?cation. -
FDT-based protocol implementation. - Software tools and support environments. - FDT application
to distributed systems. - Protocol testing including conformance testing interoperability
testing and performance testing. - Test generation selection and coverage. - Practical
experience and case studies. - Corporate strategic and ?nancial consequences of using formal
methods. A total of 61 papers were submitted to FORTE 2002 and reviewed by m- bers of the
program committee and additional reviewers. The program committee selected 22 regular papers
two tool papers and two posters for presentation at the conference. The program also included
three tutorials and ?ve invited talks.
