2nd international workshop on living with inconsistency

Abstract

In software engineering, there has long been a recognition that inconsistency is a fact of life. Evolving descriptions of software artefacts are frequently inconsistent, and tolerating this inconsistency is important if flexible collaborative working is to be supported. This workshop will focus on reasoning in the presence of inconsistency, for a wide range of software engineering activities, such as building and exploring requirements models, validating specifications, verifying correctness of implementations, monitoring runtime behaviour, and analyzing development processes. A particular interest is on how existing automated approaches such as model checking, theorem proving, logic programming, and model-based reasoning can still be applied in the presence of inconsistency.