Foundational and methodological issues in formal methods -- Design and analysis of software systems -- Design and analysis of hardware systems.- Applications in various domains.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2013, held in Brasilia, Brazil, in September/October 2013. The 14 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers presented cover a broad range of foundational and methodological issues in formal methods for the design and analysis of software and hardware systems as well as applications in various domains.