Formal Aspects of Component Software

This book constitutes the thoroughly revised selected papers from the16th International Conference on Formal Aspects of Component Software,FACS 2019, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2019. The 9 full papers presented together with 9 full papers and 3 short papers as well as 2 other papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions.FACS 2019 is concerned with how formal methods can be used to makecomponent-based and service-oriented software development succeed.Formal methods have provided a foundation for component-based softwareby successfully addressing challenging issues such as mathematicalmodels for components, composition and adaptation, or rigorousapproaches to verification, deployment, testing, and certification.