rCOS: Defining Meanings of Component-Based Software Architectures -- Model-Based Verification, Optimization, Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of Real-Time Systems -- Unifying Theories of Programming in Isabelle -- FORMULA 2.0: A Language for Formal Specifications -- Formal Modelling, Analysis and Verification of Hybrid Systems.

This book presents 5 tutorial lectures by leading researchers given at the ICTAC 2013 Software Engineering School on Unifying Theories of Programming and Formal Engineering Methods, held in Shanghai, China in August 2013.The lectures are aimed at postgraduate students, researchers, academics, and industrial engineers. They cover topics such as component-based and service-oriented systems, real-time systems, hybrid systems, cyber physical systems, and present techniques such as inductive theorem proving, model checking, correction by construction through refinement and model transformations, synthesis, and computer algebra. Two of the courses are explicitly related to Hoare and He's Unifying Theories of Programming.