中国高校科技期刊研究会第9次会员代表大会在北京召开，中宣部出版局副局长张怀海、教育部科学技术与信息化司一级巡视员张国辉等领导出席会议并发表..
英文简介：The focus of this journal is on formal methods for designing, implementing, and validating the correctness of hardware (VLSI) and software systems. The stimulus for starting a journal with this goal came from both academia and industry. In both areas, interest in the use of formal methods has increased rapidly during the past few years. The enormous cost and time required to validate new designs has led to the realization that more powerful techniques must be developed. A number of techniques and tools are currently being devised for improving the reliability, and robustness of complex hardware and software systems. While the boundary between the (sub)components of a system that are cast in hardware, firmware, or software continues to blur, the relevant design disciplines and formal methods are maturing rapidly. Consequently, an important (and useful) collection of commonly applicable formal methods are expected to emerge that will strongly influence future design environments and design methods.中文简介：（来自Google、百度翻译）本期刊的重点是设计，实现和验证硬件 (VLSI) 和软件系统正确性的形式化方法。以此为目标创办期刊的刺激来自学术界和工业界。在这两个领域，对使用正式方法的兴趣在过去几年中迅速增加。验证新设计所需的巨大成本和时间导致人们意识到必须开发更强大的技术。目前正在设计许多技术和工具来提高复杂硬件和软件系统的可靠性和鲁棒性。当系统的 (子) 组件之间的边界 (由硬件，固件或软件转换) 继续模糊时，相关的设计规则和形式化方法正在迅速成熟。因此，预计将出现一个重要的 (有用的) 通用形式化方法集合，这将强烈影响未来的设计环境和设计方法。
