Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems ; 3rd International Workshop, FAABS 2004, Greenbelt, MD, April 26-27, 2004, Revised Selected Papers
The 3rd Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems (FAABS-III) was held at the Greenbelt Marriott Hotel (near NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) in April 2004 in conjunction with the IEEE Computer Society. The first FAABS workshop was help in April 2000 and the second in October 2002. Interest in agent-based systems continues to grow and this is seen in the wide range of conferences and journals that are addressing the research in this area as well as the prototype and developmental systems that are coming into use. Our third workshop, FAABS-III, was held in April, 2004. This volume contains the revised papers and posters presented at that workshop. The Organizing Committee was fortunate in having significant support in the planning and organization of these events, and were privileged to have wor- renowned keynote speakers Prof. J Moore (FAABS-I), Prof. Sir Roger Penrose (FAABS-II), and Prof. John McCarthy (FAABS-III), who spoke on the topic of se- aware computing systems, auguring perhaps a greater interest in autonomic computing as part of future FAABS events. We are grateful to all who attended the workshop, presented papers or posters, and participated in panel sessions and both formal and informal discussions to make the workshop a great success. Our thanks go to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Codes 588 and 581 (Software Engineering Laboratory) for their financial support and to the IEEE Computer Society (Technical Committee on Complexity in Computing) for their sponsorship and organizational assistance.
Discrete, continuous, and hybrid Petri Nets
The book is a scientific monograph as well as a didactic tutorial which is easy to understand due to many exercises with solutions, detailed figures and several case studies. It demonstrates that Petri nets are a deep, practical and alive field important for researchers, engineers and graduate students in engineering and computer science.
CONCUR 2005 - Concurrency Theory
This volume contains the papers presented at CONCUR 2005, the 16th - ternational Conference on Concurrency Theory. The purpose of the CONCUR series of conferences is to bring together researchers,developers, and students in order to advance the theory of concurrency and to promote its applications. The Program Committee selected 38 papers for presentation. Because of the format of the conference and the high number of submissions, many good papers could not be included. Although submissions werereadand evaluated, the papers that appear in this volume may di?er in form and contents from the corresponding submissions.
Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval Vol. 3902 ; 3rd International Symposium, CMMR 2005, Pisa, Italy, September 26-28, 2005, Revised Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval Symposium, CMMR 2005. the papers address a broad variety of topics. The papers are organized in topical sections on sound synthesis; music perception and cognition; interactive music: interface, interaction, gestures and sensors, music composition; music retrieval: music performance, music analysis, music representation; as well as interdisciplinarity and computer music.
Computer Aided Verification ; Vol. 3576 ; 17th International Conference, CAV 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 6-10, 2005, Proceedings
This volume contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Aided Veri?cation (CAV), held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005. CAV 2005 was the seventeenth in a series of conferences dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-assisted formal an- ysis methods for software and hardware systems. The conference covered the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete applications, with an emphasis on practical veri?cation tools and the algorithms and techniques that are needed for their implementation.
Computational methods in systems biology ; International Conference CMSB 2007, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 20-21, 2007, Proceedings
This book presented present a variety of techniques from computer science, such as language design, concurrency theory, software engineering, and formal methods, for biologists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in the systems-level understanding of cellular processes.
Cognitive engineering : A distributed approach to machine intelligence
Cognitive Engineering: A Distributed Approach to Machine Intelligence explores the design issues of intelligent engineering systems. Beginning with the foundations of psychological modeling of the human mind, the main emphasis is given to parallel and distributed realization of intelligent models for application in reasoning, learning, planning and multi-agent co-ordination problems. The last two chapters provide case studies on human-mood detection and control, and behavioral co-operation of mobile robots. This is the first comprehensive text of its kind, bridging the gap between Cognitive Science and Cognitive Systems Engineering. Each chapter includes plenty of numerical examples and exercises with sufficient hints, so that the reader can solve the exercises on their own. Computer simulations are also included in most chapters to give a clear idea about the application of the algorithms undertaken in the book. In addition, mathematical analysis on convergence and stability of the neuro-fuzzy models will enable the reader to pursue their research career in cognitive engineering.
Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods ; 1st International Symposium, ISoLA 2004, Paphos, Cyprus, October 30 - November 2, 2004, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, ISoLA 2004, held in Paphos, Cyprus in October/November 2004. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from more than 70 submissions. The papers discuss issues related to the adoption and use of rigorous tools and methods for the specification, analysis, verification, certification, construction, test, and maintenance of systems. In particular, by discussing common problems, requirements, algorithms, methodologies, and practices, ISoLA aims at supporting researchers in their quest to improve the utility, reliability, flexibility, and efficiency of tools for building systems, and users in their search for adequate solutions to their problems.
Automated technology for verification and analysis ; 6th International Symposium, ATVA 2008, Seoul, Korea, October 20-23, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, ATVA 2008, held in Seoul, Korea, in October 2008.
Automated technology for verification and analysis ; 5th International Symposium, ATVA 2007 Tokyo, Japan, October 22-25, 2007 Proceedings
This book presented theoretical methods to achieve correct software or hardware systems, including both functional and non functional aspects
Automated technology for verification and analysis ; 3rd International Symposium, ATVA 2005, Taipei, Taiwan, October 4-7, 2005, Proceedings
The Automated Technology for Veri?cation and Analysis (ATVA) international symposium series was initiated in 2003, responding to a growing interest in formal veri?cation spurred by the booming IT industry, particularly hardware design and manufacturing in East Asia. Its purpose is to promote research on automated veri?cation and analysis in the region by providing a forum for int- action between the regional and the international research/industrial commu- ties of the ?eld. ATVA 2005, the third of the ATVA series, was held in Taipei, Taiwan, 2005. The main theme of the symposium encompasses - sign, complexities, tools, and applications of automated methods for veri?cation and analysis. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the symposium .
Artificial intelligence applications and innovations II; IFIP TC12 and WG12.5 ; 2nd IFIP conference on artificial intelligence applications and innovations (AIAI-2005), Sept. 7-9, 2005, Beijing, China
Artificial Intelligence is one of the oldest and most exciting subfields of computing, covnering such areas as intelligent robotics, intelligent planning and scheduling, model-based reasoning, fault diagnosis, natural language processing, maching translation, knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge-based systems, knowledge engineering, intelligent agents, machine learning, neural nets, genetic algorithms and knowledge management. The papers in this volume comprise the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations,held in Beijing, China in 2005.
Artificial immune systems ; Vol. 3627 ; 4th International conference, ICARIS 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada, August 14-17, 2005, Proceedings
Your immune system is unique. It is in many ways as complex as your brain, butit is not centred in one location, like the brain. It is not a single organ—it consistsof many different cell types, diverse methods of intercellular communication, andmany different organs. Its functionality is blurred throughout you—we can’textract the immune system, or point to where it begins and ends. The immunesystem is not separable from the system it protects. It has integral links to everyorgan of our bodies.This has radical implications for the field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS),that we are only now beginning to comprehend. One of the first insights is thatmodelling the immune system, or developing any kind of immune algorithm, isdifficult. The immune system is one aspect of biology that we find difficult toapply simple reductionist explanations to. We can very successfully extract sub-processes of the whole and create immune algorithms based on those processes.
Applications and theory of Petri Nets 2005 ; 26th international conference, ICATPN 2005, Miami, FL, June 20-25, 2005, Proceedings
This volume contains the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (ICATPN 2005). The Petri net conferences serve to discuss yearly progress in the ?eld of Petri nets and related models of concurrency, and to foster new - vancesintheapplicationandtheoryofPetrinets. Several tutorials and workshops were organized within the conf- ence, covering introductory and advanced aspects related to Petri nets.Detailed
Applications and Theory of Petri Nets ; 29th International Conference, PETRI NETS 2008, Xi’an, China, June 23-27, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2008, held in Xi'an, China, in June 2008.
Application and Theory of Petri Nets 2002 ; 23rd International Conference, ICATPN 2002, Adelaide, Australia, June 24-30, 2002. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets, ICATPN 2002, held in Adelaide, Australia, in June 2002. The 18 regular papers and one tool presentation presented together with six invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. All current issues on research and development of Petri nets are addressed, in particular concurrent systems analysis, model validation, business process management, reactive systems, workflow processes, wireless transaction protocols.
Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science ; 2nd International Conference, CALCO 2007, Bergen, Norway, August 20-24, 2007, Proceedings
Addressing two basic areas of application for algebras and coalgebras - as mathematical objects as well as in the context of their application in computer science - the papers cover topics such as abstract models and logics, specialised models and calculi, algebraic and coalgebraic semantics, and system specification and verification.
Agent communication ; International workshop on agent communication, AC 2004, New York, NY, July 19, 2004
In this book, we present a collection of papers around the topic of agent com- nication. The communication between agents has been one of the major topics of research in multiagent systems. The current work can therefore build on a number of previous Workshops of which the proceedings have been published in earlier volumes in this series. The basis of this collection is formed by the accepted submissions of the Workshop on Agent Communication held in c- junction with the AAMAS Conference in July 2004 in New York. the current collection comprises a very good and quite complete overview of the state of the art in this area of research and gives a good indication of the topics that are of major interest at the moment. The papers can roughly be divided over the following ?ve themes: – social commitments – multiparty communication – content languages – dialogues and conversations – speech acts Although these themes are of course not mutually exclusive they indicate some main directions of research. We therefore have arranged the papers in the book according to the topics indicated above.

















