This book contains the eight invited papers presented at the workshop on
Formal Aspects of Measurement held at South Bank University on 5th May
1991, organised by the British Computer Society's Special Interest Group
on Formal Aspects of Computer Science (FACS). In addition, there are
five papers which have been included because of their relevance to the
subject of the workshop. The book represents something of a landmark in
software engineering research. The British Computer Society's Special
Interest Group on Formal Aspects of Computer Science (FACS) has an
established reputa- tion among researchers in formal methods of software
specification, design and validation. These researchers have not in the
past paid much attention to software measurement. Perhaps software
measurement re- search was felt to have emphasised its management
potential at the expense of proper scientific foundations? At any rate,
for the FACS group to host a workshop in this field is recognition of
the significant body of formal measurement theories and techniques which
has now become available to software engineers.