VDM '87. VDM - A Formal Method at Work

VDM '87. VDM - A Formal Method at Work
Author: VDM-Europe
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1987-03-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540176541

Erste Untersuchungen der Halswirbelsäule werden stets mit Hilfe von Röntgenaufnahmen durchgeführt, und in den meisten Fällen genügen diese als Grundlage für die Diagnose. Mißbildungen, Tumoren, und noch öfter Traumata, Rheuma und sogar ganz gewöhnliche Nackenschmerzen erfordern eine radiologische Untersuchung der Wirbelsäule. Die Auswertung jedoch ist schwierig. Nimmt man einen Halswirbel in die Hand, so stellt man fest, um welch komplexes Gebilde es sich hierbei handelt. Bei radiologischen Aufnahmen wird die Auswertung noch durch die sich überlappenden Knochenteile, Anhäufungen und die verschiedenen Blickwinkel erschwert. Das Buch von J.-F. Bonneville und F. Cattin stellt eine originelle Interpretationsmethode von Röntgenaufnahmen vor, die die Auswertung wesentlich erleichtert. Dieses Buch zeigt, daß zwei- bzw. dreidimensionale Computertomogramme eine ausgezeichnete Hilfe zum Verständnis von konventionellen Röntgenbildern sein können. Der Leser bekommt gleichsam Zugang zu jedem Einzelteil des Knochens, und von da an wird alles einfach, Überlappungen verschwinden, die in der Röntgenaufnahme verborgenen Tücken werden sichtbar, die Anatomie triumphiert, das Bild lebt. Die Halswirbelsäule von J.-F. Bonneville und F. Cattin ist unentbehrlich für jeden Radiologen in seiner täglichen Praxis, aber ebenso auch für Chirurgen, Rheumatologen und Physiotherapeuten, die sich für die Halswirbelsäule interessieren.

FME '93: Industrial-Strength Formal Methods

FME '93: Industrial-Strength Formal Methods
Author: Jim Woodcock
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 712
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783540566625

The last few years have borne witness to a remarkable diversity of formal methods, with applications to sequential and concurrent software, to real-time and reactive systems, and to hardware design. In that time, many theoretical problems have been tackled and solved, and many continue to be worked upon. Yet it is by the suitability of their industrial application and the extent of their usage that formal methods will ultimately be judged. This volume presents the proceedings of the first international symposium of Formal Methods Europe, FME'93. The symposium focuses on the application of industrial-strength formal methods. Authors address the difficulties of scaling their techniques up to industrial-sized problems, and their suitability in the workplace, and discuss techniques that are formal (that is, they have a mathematical basis) and that are industrially applicable. The volume has four parts: - Invited lectures, containing a lecture by Cliff B. Jones and a lecture by Antonio Cau and Willem-Paul de Roever; - Industrial usage reports, containing 6 reports; - Papers, containing 32 selected and refereedpapers; - Tool descriptions, containing 11 descriptions.

VDM '88. VDM - The Way Ahead

VDM '88. VDM - The Way Ahead
Author: Robin E. Bloomfield
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1988
Genre: Computer science
ISBN: 9783540502142

This volume presents the proceedings of the 2nd VDM-Europe Symposium held in Dublin, Ireland, September 12-16, 1988. VDM, the Vienna Development Method, is a formal method for software engineering. It is being applied to an increasing number of projects by companies throughout Europe and there is an active international research programme supporting this process. "VDM - The Way Ahead" is the second of a series of symposia sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities (CEC) and organised by VDM-Europe. The term "formal method" refers to mathematically formal software specification and production methods. These methods aim to increase the quality of software in two related ways: by improving the specification and by making verification during the software production process more effective and easier to audit. The symposium proceedings focus on five areas of interest: education and technology transfer, experience and use of VDM, tools and support environments, method development and foundation at work, the standardisation of VDM. The proceedings are of interest to all those concerned with the application of more rigorous approaches to software development and the associated theoretical foundations.

VDM '91. Formal Software Development Methods. 4th International Symposium of VDM Europe, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, October 21-25, 1991. Proceedings

VDM '91. Formal Software Development Methods. 4th International Symposium of VDM Europe, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, October 21-25, 1991. Proceedings
Author: Soren Prehn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1991-10-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540548683

The proceedings of the fourth Vienna Development Method Symposium, VDM '91, are published here in two volumes. Previous VDM symposia were held in 1987 (LNCS 252), 1988 (LNCS 328), and 1990 (LNCS 428). The VDM symposia have been organized by the VDM Europe, formed in 1985 as an advisory board sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities. The VDM Europe working group consisted of reasearchers, software engineers, and programmers, all interested in prommoting the industrial usage of formal methods for software development. The fourth VDM symposium presented not only VDM but also a large number of other methods for formal software development. Volume 1 contains the conference contributions. It has four parts: contributions of invited speakers, papers, project reports, and tools demonstration abstracts. The emphasis is on methods and calculi for development, verification and verification tools support, experiences from doing developments, and the associated theoretical problems. Volume2 contains four introductory tutorials (on LARCH, Refinement Calculus, VDM, and RAISE) and four advanced tutorials (on ABEL, PROSPECTRA, THE B Method, and The Stack). They present a comprehensive account of the state of theart.

Computational Geometry and Its Applications

Computational Geometry and Its Applications
Author: Hartmut Noltemeier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1988-10-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540503354

The International Workshop CG '88 on "Computational Geometry" was held at the University of Würzburg, FRG, March 24-25, 1988. As the interest in the fascinating field of Computational Geometry and its Applications has grown very quickly in recent years the organizers felt the need to have a workshop, where a suitable number of invited participants could concentrate their efforts in this field to cover a broad spectrum of topics and to communicate in a stimulating atmosphere. This workshop was attended by some fifty invited scientists. The scientific program consisted of 22 contributions, of which 18 papers with one additional paper (M. Reichling) are contained in the present volume. The contributions covered important areas not only of fundamental aspects of Computational Geometry but a lot of interesting and most promising applications: Algorithmic Aspects of Geometry, Arrangements, Nearest-Neighbor-Problems and Abstract Voronoi-Diagrams, Data Structures for Geometric Objects, Geo-Relational Algebra, Geometric Modeling, Clustering and Visualizing Geometric Objects, Finite Element Methods, Triangulating in Parallel, Animation and Ray Tracing, Robotics: Motion Planning, Collision Avoidance, Visibility, Smooth Surfaces, Basic Models of Geometric Computations, Automatizing Geometric Proofs and Constructions.

Proceedings / Parcella 1988

Proceedings / Parcella 1988
Author: Gottfried Wolf
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1989-04-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540506478

Proceedings -- Parallel Computing.

Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science

Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
Author: Kesav V. Nori
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1988-11-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540505174

This volume contains the proceedings of the 8th Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science held in Pune, India, on December 21-23, 1988. This internationally well-established Indian conference series provides a forum for actively investigating the interface between theory and practice of Software Science. It also gives an annual occasion for interaction between active research communities in India and abroad. Besides attractive invited papers the volume contains carefully reviewed submitted papers on the following topics: Automata and Formal Languages, Graph Algorithms and Geometric Algorithms, Distributed Computing, Parallel Algorithms, Database Theory, Logic Programming, Programming Methodology, Theory of Algorithms, Semantics and Complexity.

Mathematical Foundations of Programming Language Semantics

Mathematical Foundations of Programming Language Semantics
Author: Michael Main
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 652
Release: 1988-03-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9783540190202

This volume is the proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Language Semantics held at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 8-10, 1987. The 1st Workshop was at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas in April, 1985 (see LNCS 239), and the 2nd Workshop with a limited number of participants was at Kansas State in April, 1986. It was the intention of the organizers that the 3rd Workshop survey as many areas of the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Language Semantics as reasonably possible. The Workshop attracted 49 submitted papers, from which 28 papers were chosen for presentation. The papers ranged in subject from category theory and Lambda-calculus to the structure theory of domains and power domains, to implementation issues surrounding semantics.

A Connotational Theory of Program Structure

A Connotational Theory of Program Structure
Author: James S. Royer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1987-08-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540182535

This book presents developments of a language independent theory of program structure. The theory features a simple, natural notion of control structure which is much broader than in other theories of programming languages such as denotational semantics and program schemes. This notion permits treatment of control structures which involve not only the denotation of programs (i.e., their input/output behavior), but also their structure, size, run times, etc. The theory also treats the relation of control structure and complexity properties of programming languages. The book focuses on expressive interdependencies of control structures (which control structures can be expressed by which others). A general method of proving control structures expressively independent is developed. The book also considers characterizations of the expressive power of general purpose programming languages in terms of control structures. Several new characterizations are presented and two compactness results for such characterizations are shown.

Global Dynamics of the Earth

Global Dynamics of the Earth
Author: Roberto Sabadini
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2004-04-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781402012686

This volume opens up new perspectives on the physics of the Earth's interior for graduate students and researchers working in the fields of geophysics and geodesy. It looks at our planet in an integrated fashion, linking the physics of its interior to the geophysical and geodetic techniques that record, over a broad spectrum of spatial wavelengths, the ongoing modifications in the shape and gravity field of the planet. Basic issues related to the rheological properties of the Earth's mantle and to its slow deformation will be understood, in both mathematical and physical terms, within the framework of an analytical normal mode relaxation theory. Fundamentals of this theory are developed in the first, tutorial part. The second part deals with a wide range of applications, ranging from changes in the Earth's rotation to post-seismic deformation and sea-level variations induced by post-glacial rebound. In the study of the physics of the Earth's interior, the book bridges the gap between seismology and geodynamics.