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Advertising Formal Methods and Organizing Their Teaching: Yes, but ...

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This position paper aims to address most of the “challenges” suggested by the conference’s CFP plus a few others. The style is deliberately informal and colloquial, occasionally even provocative: for every examined point some obvious agreement is given for granted but a few, more controversial, “counterpoints” are raised and hints are suggested for deeper discussion. At the end a constructive synthesis is attempted.

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Mandrioli, D. (2004). Advertising Formal Methods and Organizing Their Teaching: Yes, but .... In: Dean, C.N., Boute, R.T. (eds) Teaching Formal Methods. TFM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3294. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30472-2_14

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