Formal Aspects of Component Software

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Formal Aspects of Component Software, FACS 2024, held in Milan, Italy, during September 9-10, 2024.
The 7 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: verification and testing, formal models, and security and blockchain.

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Verification and testing: Enabling behaviour tree verification via a translation to BIP.- Verified fault handling for modern board management controllers.- Testing compositionality. Formal models: Correct pattern-based development through refinements and weakest preconditions calculus.- Coq formalization of orientation representation: matrix, Euler angles, axis-angle and quaternion.- Reactive graphs in action. Security and blockchain: Extracting formal smart-contract specifications from natural language with LLMs.- How do asynchronous communication models impact the composability of information flow security?