Object-Oriented Technology. ECOOP 2007 Workshop Reader ; ECOOP 2007 Workshops, Berlin, Germany, July 30-31, 2007, Final Reports
Contains the reports from the workshopsheld at the 21st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming - ECOOP 2007 - at Technische Universit] at Berlin. Nineteen workshops were heldin the courseofthis conference on July 30 and July 31, 2007, covering a large spectrum of hot research topics. As in previous editions of ECOOP, numerous scientists from academia and industry took the chance to present innovative and topical ideas in an environment ofering optimal conditions for exciting discussions and fruitful interactions. The Workshop Reader which contains the reports from the workshops has been a substantial part of the ECOOP conference for more than10 years
Model Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications ; 4th European Conference, ECMDA-FA 2008, Berlin, Germany, June 9-13, 2008. Proceedings
The 31 revised full papers presented - 21 research papers and 10 industry papers - were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. The papers address all current issues of model-driven architecture, i.e. model management, executable models, concrete syntaxes, aspects, and concerns, validation and testing, model-based systems engineering, model-driven development and service-oriented architectures, and the application of model-driven development. The papers are organized in topical sections on model management, executable models, concrete syntaxes, aspects and concerns, validation and testing, model-based systems engineering, model-driven development and service-oriented architectures, as well as surveys on applying model-driven development.
Model Checking Software ; 15th International SPIN Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 10-12, 2008 Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International SPIN workshop on Model Checking Software, SPIN 2008, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2008.The 17 revised full papers presented together with 1 tool paper and 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The main focus of the workshop series is software systems, including models and programs. The papers cover theoretical and algorithmic foundations as well as tools for software model checking and foster interactions and exchanges of ideas with related areas in software engineering, such as static analysis, dynamic analysis, and testing.
Mathematics of Program Construction ; 9th International Conference, MPC 2008, Marseille, France, July 15-18, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction, MPC 2008, held in Marseille, France in July 2008.The 18 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. Issues addressed range from algorithmics to support for program construction in programming languages and systems. Topics of special interest are type systems, program analysis and transformation, programming language semantics, program logics.
Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems ; 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 15-16, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the proceedings of the the 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2008, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in December 2008.The 19 regular papers and 22 short papers presented together with 3 keynote speeches, were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. Many current subjects in multi-agent research and development are addressed, ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to various applications in different fields. There was a track on multi-issue negotiation and agents and HCI.
Implementation and Applications of Automata ; 13th International Conference, CIAA 2008, San Francisco, California, USA, July 21-24, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2008, held in San Francisco, USA, in July 2008.The 26 revised full papers togehter with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions and have gone through two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers cover various topics in the theory, implementation, and applications of automata and related structures.
Hybrid Systems : Computation and Control ; 11th International Workshop, HSCC 2008, St. Louis, MO, USA, April 22-24, 2008. Proceedings
Contains the proceedings ofthe 11th Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2008) held in St. Louis, Missouriduring April 22–24,2008.The annual workshop on hybrid systems focuses on research inbedded ,reactive systems in volving theinterplay between symbolic/switchingand continuous dynamical behaviors. HSCC attracts academic as well as industrial researchers to exchange information on the latest developments of applications and theoretical advancements in the design, analysis, control, optimization, and implementation of hybrid systems, with particular attention to embedded and networked control systems. We would like to thank the Program Committee members and the reviewers for an excellent job of evaluating the submissions and participating in the online Program Committee discussions.
Hardware and software : Verification and testing ; 3rd International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2007, Haifa, Israel, October 23-25, 2007. Proceedings
These are the conference proceedings of the 4th Haifa Verifcation Conference, held October 27–30, 2008 in Haifa, Israel. This international conference is a unique venue that brings together leading researchers and practitioners of both formal and dynamic verifcation, for both hardware and software systems. This year’s conference extended the successes of the previous years, with a largejumpinthenumberofsubmitted papers. with many more high-quality papers than we had room to accept. Submissions came from 19 di?erent countries, re?ecting the growing international visibility of the conference. Of the 49 submissions, 43 were regular papers, 2 of which were later withdrawn, and 6 were tool papers. After a rigorous review process.
Grammatical Inference ; Algorithms and Applications : 9th International Colloquium, ICGI 2008 Saint-Malo, France, September 22-24, 2008 Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference, ICGI 2008, held in Saint-Malo, France, in September 2008.The 21 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The topics of the papers presented vary from theoretical results of learning algorithms to innovative applications of grammatical inference, and from learning several interesting classes of formal grammars to applications to natural language processing.
Fundamental approaches to software engineering ; 11th International Conference, FASE 2008, Held as Part of the Joint European conferences on theory and practice of software, ETAPS 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29-April 6, 2008. Proceedings
The fve main conferences received 571 submissions, 147 of which were accepted, giving an overall acceptance rate of less than 26%, with each conference below 27%.Congratulationsthereforetoallthe authorswhomadeittothe alprogramme! I hope that most of the other authors will still have found a way of participating in this exciting event, and that you will all continue submitting to ETAPS and contributing to make of it the best conference in the area،The events that comprise ETAPS address various aspects of the system velopment process,including specifcation, design, implementation, analysis and improvement.
Functional and logic programming ; 9th International Symposium, FLOPS 2008, Ise, Japan, April 14-16, 2008. Proceedings
This volume contains the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming (FLOPS 2008), held in Ise, Japan, April 14-16, 2008 at the Ise City Plaza. FLOPS is a forum for research on all issues concerning functional progr- ming and logic programming. In particular it aims to stimulate the cro- fertilization as well as integration of the two paradigms. The Program Committee meeting was conducted electro- cally, for a period of two weeks in December 2007. After careful and thorough discussion, the ProgramCommittee selected20 papers(33%)for presentationat theconference.
Foundations of software science and computation structures ; 11th International conference, FOSSACS 2008, Held as part of the joint European conferences on theory and practice of software, ETAPS 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29 - April 6, 2008. proceedings
The fve main conferences received 571 submissions, 147 of which were accepted, giving an overall acceptance rate of less than 26%, with each conference below 27%.Congratulations there foretoall the authorswhomadeittothe fnalprogramme! I hope that most of the other authors will still have found a way of participating in this exciting event, and that you will all continue submitting to ETAPS and contributing to make of it the best conference in the area. The events that comprise ETAPS address various aspects of the system velopment process, including specifcation, design, implementation, analysis and improvement
Foundations of information and knowledge systems ; 5th International Symposium, FoIKS 2008, Pisa, Italy, February 11-15, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2008 held in Pisa, Italy, in February 2008. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 9 revised short papers and 3 invited lectures were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from from 79 submissions. The papers deal with any foundational aspect of information and knowledge systems, including submissions from researchers working in fields such as discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, information theory, complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, geometry, analysis, statistics and optimisation who are interested in applying their ideas, theories and methods to research on information and knowledge systems.
Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems - FORTE 2008 ; 28th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference Tokyo, Japan, June 10-13, 2008 Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems, FORTE 2008, held in Tokyo, Japan, in June 2008 co-located with TestCom/FATES 2008.The 19 revised full papers and 1 revised short paper presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers cover new approaches, concepts and experience in the application of formal methods for the specification and verification of distributed systems and applications.
Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems ; 6th International Conference, FORMATS 2008, Saint Malo, France, September 15-17, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2008, held in Saint Malo, France, September 2008.The 17 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on extensions of timed automata and semantics; timed games and logic; case studies; model-checking of probabilistic systems; verification and test; timed petri nets.
Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems ; 12th International Workshop, FMICS 2007, Berlin, Germany, July 1-2, 2007, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems, FMICS 2007, held in Berlin, Germany, in July 2007 - colocated with CAV 2007, the 19th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification.
Formal Methods for Computational Systems Biology ; 8th International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication, and Software Systems, SFM 2008 Bertinoro, Italy, June 2-7, 2008 Advanced Lectures
This volume presents the set of papers accompanying the lectures of the eighth International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Com- nication, and Software Systems (SFM). This series of schools addresses the use of formal methods in computer science asaprominent approach to theri gorousdesign of computer, communication, and software systems. The main aim of the SFM series is to ofer a good spectrum of current research in foundations as well as applications of formal methods, which can be of help for graduate students and young researchers who intend to approach the feld.
Formal Methods for Components and Objects ; 6th International Symposium, FMCO 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 24-26, 2007, Revised Lectures
Formal methods have been applied successfully to the verification of medium-sized programs in protocol and hardware design.This book presents 12 revised papers submitted after the symposium by the speakers of each of the following European IST projects: the IST-FP6 project Mobius, developing the technology for establishing trust and security for the next generation of global computers; the IST-FP6 project SelfMan on self management for large-scale distributed systems based on structured overlay networks and components
Formal Methods and Testing : An Outcome of the FORTEST Network, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and peer-reviewed outcome of the Formal Methods and Testing (FORTEST) network - formed as a network established under UK EPSRC funding that investigated the relationships between formal (and semi-formal) methods and software testing - now being a subject group of two BCS Special Interest Groups: Formal Aspects of Computing Science (BCS FACS) and Special Interest Group in Software Testing (BCS SIGIST).
FM 2008 : Formal methods ; 15th International symposium on formal methods, Turku, Finland, May 26-30, 2008 Proceedings
This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2008, held in Turku, Finland in May 2008.The 23 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited contributions and extended abstracts of 5 invited industrial presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on programming language analysis, verification, real-time and concurrency, grand chellenge problems, fm practice, runtime monitoring and analysis, communication, constraint analysis, and design.



















