Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology : 8th International Conference AMAST 2000 Iowa City Iowa USA May 20–27 2000 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology AMAST 2000 held in Iowa City Iowa USA in May 2000. The 20 revised full papers presented together with eight invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 53 submissions. Among the topics covered are all current issues in formal methods related to algebraic approaches including abstract data types abstract state machines algebraic state machines algebraic compilers state charts process algebras etc. The algebraic methods are applied to reactive systems safety critical systems concurrency Java UML etc