Foundation of Software Science and Computation Structures
Foundation of Software Science and Computation Structures

Author: Jerzy Tiuryn

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-06-26

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 3540464328

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ETAPS2000wasthethirdinstanceoftheEuropeanJointConferencesonTheory and Practice of Software. ETAPS is an annual federated conference that was established in 1998 by combining a number of existing and new conferences. This year it comprisedv e conferences (FOSSACS, FASE, ESOP,CC, TACAS), ve satellite workshops (CBS, CMCS, CoFI, GRATRA, INT), seven invited lectures, a panel discussion, and ten tutorials. The events that comprise ETAPS address various aspects of the system - velopmentprocess,includingspeci cation,design,implementation,analysis,and improvement. The languages, methodologies, and tools which support these - tivities are all well within its scope. Die rent blends of theory and practice are represented, with an inclination towards theory with a practical motivation on one hand and soundly-based practice on the other. Many of the issues involved in software design apply to systems in general, including hardware systems, and the emphasis on software is not intended to be exclusive. ETAPS is a loose confederation in which each event retains its own identity, with a separate program committee and independent proceedings. Its format is open-ended, allowing it to grow and evolve as time goes by. Contributed talks and system demonstrations are in synchronized parallel sessions, with invited lectures in plenary sessions. Two of the invited lectures are reserved for \u- fying" talks on topics of interest to the whole range of ETAPS attendees.

Logic Colloquium '02
Logic Colloquium '02

Author: Zoé Chatzidakis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-03-31

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1108631673

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Since their inception, the Perspectives in Logic and Lecture Notes in Logic series have published seminal works by leading logicians. Many of the original books in the series have been unavailable for years, but they are now in print once again. This volume, the twenty-seventh publication in the Lecture Notes in Logic series, contains the proceedings of two conferences: the European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic and the Colloquium Logicum, held in Münster, Germany in August, 2002. This compilation of articles from some of the world's preeminent logicians spans all areas of mathematical logic, including philosophical logic and computer science logic. It contains expanded versions of a number of invited plenary talks and tutorials that will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in the field of mathematical logic.

Exploring New Frontiers of Theoretical Informatics
Exploring New Frontiers of Theoretical Informatics

Author: Jean-Jacques Lévy

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-07-27

Total Pages: 681

ISBN-13: 1402081405

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In recent years, IT application scenarios have evolved in very innovative ways. Highly distributed networks have now become a common platform for large-scale distributed programming, high bandwidth communications are inexpensive and widespread, and most of our work tools are equipped with processors enabling us to perform a multitude of tasks. In addition, mobile computing (referring specifically to wireless devices and, more broadly, to dynamically configured systems) has made it possible to exploit interaction in novel ways. To harness the flexibility and power of these rapidly evolving, interactive systems, there is need of radically new foundational ideas and principles; there is need to develop the theoretical foundations required to design these systems and to cope with the many complex issues involved in their construction; and there is need to develop effective principles for building and analyzing such systems. Reflecting the diverse and wide spectrum of topics and interests within the theoretical computer science community, Exploring New Frontiers of Theoretical Informatics, is presented in two distinct but interrelated tracks: -Algorithms, Complexity and Models of Computation, -Logic, Semantics, Specification and Verification. Exploring New Frontiers of Theoretical Informatics contains 46 original and significant contributions addressing these foundational questions, as well as 4 papers by outstanding invited speakers. These papers were presented at the 3rd IFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (TCS 2004), which was held in conjunction with the 18th World Computer Congress in Toulouse, France in August 2004 and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

Formal and Natural Computing
Formal and Natural Computing

Author: Wilfried Brauer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2002-02-06

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 354043190X

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This book presents state of the art research in theoretical computer science and related ?elds. In particular, the following areas are discussed: automata theory, formal languages and combinatorics of words, graph transformations, Petri nets, concurrency, as well as natural and molecular computing. The articles are written by leading researchers in these areas. The writers were originally invited to contribute to this book but then the normal refereeing procedure was applied as well. All of the articles deal with some issue that has been under vigorous study during recent years. Still, the topics range from very classical ones to issues raised only two or three years ago. Both survey articles and papers attacking speci?c research problems are included. The book highlights some key issues of theoretical computer science, as they seem to us now at the beginning of the new millennium. Being a comprehensive overview of some of the most active current research in theoretical computer science, it should be of de?nite interest for all researchers in the areas covered. The topics range from basic decidability and the notion of information to graph grammars and graph transformations, and from trees and traces to aqueous algorithms, DNA encoding and self-assembly. Special e?ort has been given to lucid presentation. Therefore, the book should be of interest also for advanced students.

Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems
Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems

Author: Martin Steffen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-06-03

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 3540261818

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems, FMOODS 2005, held in Athens, Greece on June 15-17, 2005. The FMOODS conference was held as a joint event in federation with the 5th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2005). The 19 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on models and calculi, UML, security, composition and verification, analysis of java programs, Web services, specification and verification.

Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 2003
Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 2003

Author: Wil van der Aalst

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-09-04

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 3540449191

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The refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets, ICATPN 2003, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in June 2003. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. All current issues on research and development in the area of Petri nets are addressed, in particular concurrent systems design and analysis, model checking, networking, business process modeling, formal methods in software engineering, agent systems, systems specification, systems validation, discrete event systems, protocols, and prototyping.

Logic and Automata
Logic and Automata

Author: Jörg Flum

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 9053565760

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Mathematical logic and automata theory are two scientific disciplines with a fundamentally close relationship. The authors of Logic and Automata take the occasion of the sixtieth birthday of Wolfgang Thomas to present a tour d’horizon of automata theory and logic. The twenty papers in this volume cover many different facets of logic and automata theory, emphasizing the connections to other disciplines such as games, algorithms, and semigroup theory, as well as discussing current challenges in the field.

Their Footprints Remain
Their Footprints Remain

Author: Alex McKay

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 9053565183

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By the end of the 19th century, British imperial medical officers and Christian medical missionaries had introduced Western medicine to Tibet, Sikkim, and Bhutan. Their Footprints Remain uses archival sources, personal letters, diaries, and oral sources in order to tell the fascinating story of how this once-new medical system became imbedded in the Himalayas. Of interest to anyone with an interest in medical history and anthropology, as well as the Himalayan world, this volume not only identifies the individuals involved and describes how they helped to spread this form of imperialist medicine, but also discusses its reception by a local people whose own medical practices were based on an entirely different understanding of the world.

Models of Sharing Graphs
Models of Sharing Graphs

Author: Masahito Hasegawa

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1447108655

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Models of Sharing Graphs presents a sound mathematical basis for reasoning about models of computation involving shared resources, including graph rewriting systems, denotational semantics and concurrency theory. An algebraic approach, based on the language of category theory, is taken throughout this work, which enables the author to describe several aspects of the notion of sharing in a systematic way. In particular, a novel account of recursive computation created from cyclic sharing is developed using this framework.