This Festschrift volume honors Carolyn Talcott, a leading researcher and mentor of international renown among computer scientists, on her 70th birthday. Includes papers on such topics as actors and programming languages; cyberphysical systems and more.
Two PhD Students for the Price of One.- Honoring Carolyn Talcott’s Contributions to Science.- Ten Years of Analyzing Actors: Rebeca Experience.- Mathematical Models of Object-Based Distributed Systems.- From Explicit to Symbolic Types for Communication Protocols in CCS.- Abstract LR-Parsing.- Fractionated Software for Networked Cyber-Physical Systems: Research Directions and Long-Term Vision.- Model Feasible Interactions in Distributed Real-Time Systems.- Puff, The Magic Protocol.- A Formal Methodology for Compositional Cross-Layer Optimization.- From Service Identification to Service Selection: An Interleaved Perspective.- Towards a System Model for Ensembles.- Algorithmic Aspects of Risk Management.- Parameterized Metareasoning in Membership Equational Logic.- Fast Sort Computations for Order-Sorted Matching and Unification.- Solving the First Verified Software Competition Problems Using PVS.- Towards a Maude Formal Environment.- Multisimulations: Towards Next Generation Integrated Simulation Environments.- Semantics, Simulation, and Formal Analysis of Modeling Languages for Embedded Systems in Real-Time Maude.- Computational Biology: A Programming Perspective.- Applications of Pathway Logic Modeling to Target Identification.