Models, Algorithms, Logics and Tools

Models, Algorithms, Logics and Tools
Author: Luca Aceto
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2017-08-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319631217

This Festschrift is published in honor of Kim Guldstrand Larsen, one of the earliest precursors of computer science in Denmark, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. During the last three decades, Kim Guldstrand Larsen has given major contributions across a remarkably wide range of topics, including real-time, concurrent, and probabilistic models of computation, logic in computer science, and model checking. Since 1995, he has been one of the prime movers behind the model checking tool for real-time systems UPPAAL, for which he was a co-recipient of the CAV Award in 2013. The Festschrift contains 32 papers that feature the broad range of Kim Guldstrand Larsen's research topics, such as formal languages and automata theory; logic; verification, model checking and testing; algorithmic game theory and mechanism design; semantics and reasoning; real-time and distributed systems; and modeling and simulation.

Theoretical Aspects of Computing – ICTAC 2019

Theoretical Aspects of Computing – ICTAC 2019
Author: Robert Mark Hierons
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2019-10-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030325059

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2019, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in October/November 2019. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers and 1 industrial paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 138 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on models and transition systems; real-time and temporal logics; verification and concurrency; privacy and security; equations, types, and programming languages.

Data Analytics and Computational Intelligence: Novel Models, Algorithms and Applications

Data Analytics and Computational Intelligence: Novel Models, Algorithms and Applications
Author: Gilberto Rivera
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2023-10-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031383257

In the age of transformative artificial intelligence (AI), which has the potential to revolutionize our lives, this book provides a comprehensive exploration of successful research and applications in AI and data analytics. Covering innovative approaches, advanced algorithms, and data analysis methodologies, this book addresses complex problems across topics such as machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, optimization, and predictive modeling. With clear explanations, practical examples, and cutting-edge research, this book seeks to expand the understanding of a wide readership, including students, researchers, practitioners, and technology enthusiasts eager to explore these exciting fields. Featuring real-world applications in education, health care, climate modeling, cybersecurity, smart transportation, conversational systems, and material analysis, among others, this book highlights how these technologies can drive innovation and generate competitive advantages.

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
Author: Cormac Flanagan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2012-03-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642287565

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2012, held as part of the joint European Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2012, which took place in Tallinn, Estonia, in March/April 2012. The 25 research papers, 2 case study papers, 3 regular tool papers, and 6 tool demonstrations papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 147 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: SAT and SMT based methods; automata; model checking; case studies; memory models and termination; internet protocol verification; stochastic model checking; synthesis; provers and analysis techniques; tool demonstrations; and competition on software verification.

Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems

Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems
Author: Belgacem Ben Hedia
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-12-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030659550

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems, VECoS 2020, which was supposed to be held in Xi’an, China, in October 2020, but was held virtually instead. The 19 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The aim of the VECoS conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of verification, control, performance, and dependability evaluation in order to discuss state of the art and challenges in modern computer and communication systems in which functional and extra-functional properties are strongly interrelated. Thus, the main motivation for VECoS is to encourage the cross-fertilization between various formal verification and evaluation approaches, methods and techniques, and especially those developed for concurrent and distributed hardware/software systems. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: petri-net, simulation, and scheduling; formal modeling and verification, testing; and artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Formal Methods – The Next 30 Years

Formal Methods – The Next 30 Years
Author: Maurice H. ter Beek
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 776
Release: 2019-09-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030309428

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2019, held in Porto, Portugal, in the form of the Third World Congress on Formal Methods, in October 2019. The 44 full papers presented together with 3 invited presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from 129 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: Invited Presentations; Verification; Synthesis Techniques; Concurrency; Model Checking Circus; Model Checking; Analysis Techniques; Specification Languages; Reasoning Techniques; Modelling Languages; Learning-Based Techniques and Applications; Refactoring and Reprogramming; I-Day Presentations.

Runtime Verification

Runtime Verification
Author: Christian Colombo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2018-11-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 303003769X

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2018, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in November 2018. The 21 full papers presented together with 3 short papers and 3 tool papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The RV conference is concerned with all aspects of monitoring and analysis of hardware, software and more general system executions. Runtime verification techniques are lightweight techniques to assess correctness, reliability, and robustness; these techniques are significantly more powerful and versatile than conventional testing, and more practical than exhaustive formal verification. Chapter “Hardware-based Runtime Verification with Embedded Tracing Units and Stream Processing” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Models, Mindsets, Meta: The What, the How, and the Why Not?

Models, Mindsets, Meta: The What, the How, and the Why Not?
Author: Tiziana Margaria
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030223485

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Bernhard Steffen, Professor at the Technical University of Dortmund, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. His vision as well as his theoretical and practical work span the development and implementation of novel, specific algorithms, and the establishment of cross-community relationships with the effect to obtain simpler, yet more powerful solutions. He initiated many new lines of research through seminal papers that pioneered various fields, starting with the Concurrency Workbench, a model checking toolbox that significantly influenced the research and development of mode based high assurance systems worldwide. The contributions in this volume reflect the breadth and impact of his work. The introductory paper by the volume editors, the 23 full papers and two personal statements relate to Bernhard’s research and life. This volume, the talks and the entire B-Day at ISoLA 2018 are a tribute to the first 30 years of Bernhard’s passion, impact and vision for many facets of computer science in general and for formal methods in particular. Impact and vision include the many roles that formal methods-supported software development should play in education, in industry and in society.

Lectures on Runtime Verification

Lectures on Runtime Verification
Author: Ezio Bartocci
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-02-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 331975632X

The idea of this volume originated from the need to have a book for students to support their training with several tutorials on different aspects of RV. The volume has been organized into seven chapters and the topics covered include an introduction on runtime verification, dynamic analysis of concurrency errors, monitoring events that carry data, runtime error reaction and prevention, monitoring of cyber-physical systems, runtime verification for decentralized and distributed systems and an industrial application of runtime verification techniques in financial transaction systems.

From Software Engineering to Formal Methods and Tools, and Back

From Software Engineering to Formal Methods and Tools, and Back
Author: Maurice H. ter Beek
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 571
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030309851

This volume was published in honor of Stefania Gnesi’s 65th birthday. The Festschrift volume contains 32 papers written by close collaborators and friends of Stefania and was presented to her on October 8, 2019 one-day colloquium held in Porto, Portugal, The Festschrift consists of eight sections, seven of which reflect the main research areas to which Stefania has contributed. Following a survey of Stefania's legacy in research and a homage by her thesis supervisor, these seven sections are ordered according to Stefania's life cycle in research, from software engineering to formal methods and tools, and back: Software Engineering; Formal Methods and Tools; Requirements Engineering; Natural Language Processing; Software Product Lines; Formal Verification; and Applications.