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“…We would like to take this opportunity to welcome you at FormaliSE 2015, the 3th FME (Formal Methods Europe; www.fmeurope.org) Workshop on Formal Methods in Software Engineering. The main goal of the workshop is to foster integration between the formal methods and the software engineering communities with the purpose to examine the link between the two more carefully than is currently the case. …”

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