Algebraic methodology and software technology : 10th international conference AMAST 2004 Stirling Scotland UK July 12 16 2004 ; proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology AMAST 2004 held in Stirling Scotland UK in July 2004. The 35 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 5 invited talks and an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. Among the topics covered are all current issues in formal methods related to algebraic approaches to software engineering including abstract data types process algebras algebraic specification model checking abstraction refinement model checking state machines rewriting Kleene algebra programming logic etc