The Space and Motion of Communicating Agents

Author: Robin Milner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139477404
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
The world is increasingly populated with interactive agents distributed in space, real or abstract. These agents can be artificial, as in computing systems that manage and monitor traffic or health; or they can be natural, e.g. communicating humans, or biological cells. It is important to be able to model networks of agents in order to understand and optimise their behaviour. Robin Milner describes in this book just such a model, by presenting a unified and rigorous structural theory, based on bigraphs, for systems of interacting agents. This theory is a bridge between the existing theories of concurrent processes and the aspirations for ubiquitous systems, whose enormous size challenges our understanding. The book is reasonably self-contained mathematically, and is designed to be learned from: examples and exercises abound, solutions for the latter are provided. Like Milner's other work, this is destined to have far-reaching and profound significance.

The Space and Motion of Communicating Agents

Author: Robin Milner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511719493
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
Robin Milner presents a unified structural theory for modelling networks of agents that is destined to have far-reaching significance.

Communicating Process Architectures 2009

Author: P. H. Welch
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 1607500655
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
"This book is a collection of the papers presented at the 32nd Communicating Process Architecture conference (CPA), held at the Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands, from the 1st to the 4th of November 2009. Concurrency is a fundamental mechanism of the universe, existing in all structures and at all levels of granularity. To be useful in this universe, any computer system has to model and reflect an appropriate level of abstraction. For simplicity, therefore, the system needs to be concurrent - so that this modeling is obvious and correct. Today, the commercial reality of multicore processors means that concurrency issues can no longer be ducked if applications are going to be able to exploit more than an ever-diminishing fraction of their power. This is a second, but very forceful, reason to take this subject seriously. We need theory and programming technology that turns this around and makes concurrency an elementary part of the everyday toolkit of every software engineer. This is what these proceedings are all about. Subjects covered in this volume include: system design and implementation for both hardware and software; tools for concurrent programming languages, libraries and run-time kernels; and formal methods and applications."--

Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2017 Workshops

Author: Lars Braubach
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319917641
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 419

Book Description
This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the scientific satellite events that were held in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2017, held in Málaga, Spain, in November 2017. The ICSOC 2017 workshop track consisted of three workshops on a wide range of topics that fall into the general area of service computing: ASOCA 2017: The Second Workshop on Adaptive Service-Oriented and Cloud Applications ISyCC 2016: The Second Workshop on IoT Systems Provisioning and Management in Cloud Computing WESOACS 2017: The 13th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications and Cloud Services

NASA Formal Methods

Author: Kristin Yvonne Rozier
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031331702
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 508

Book Description
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2023, held in Houston, Texas, USA, during May 16-18, 2023. The 26 full and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers deal with advances in formal methods, formal methods techniques, and formal methods in practice.

Software Engineering and Formal Methods

Author: Radu Calinescu
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030921247
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 524

Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2021, held as a virtual event, in December 2021. The 22 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. Also included are 2 invited talks and an abstract of a keynote talk. The papers cover a large variety of topics, including testing, formal verification, program analysis, runtime verification, meta-programming and software development and evolution. Chapter 'Configuration Space Exploration for Digital Printing Systems' is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Model and Data Engineering

Author: El Hassan Abdelwahed
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030008568
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 438

Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8h International Conference on Model and Data Engineering, MEDI 2018, held in Marrakesh, Morocco, in October 2018. The 23 full papers and 4 short papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. The papers covered the recent and relevant topics in the areas of databases; ontology and model-driven engineering; data fusion, classsification and learning; communication and information technologies; safety and security; algorithms and text processing; and specification, verification and validation.

iFM 2023

Author: Paula Herber
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031477057
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
This volume LNCS 14300 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference, IFM 2023, in November 2023, held in Leiden, The Netherlands. The 16 full papers presented together with 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The conference focuses on all aspects of the design of integrated techniques, including language design, verification and validation, automated tool support, and the use of such techniques in software engineering practice.

Fundamentals of Software Engineering

Author: Mehdi Dastani
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319246445
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th IPM International Conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering, FSEN 2015, held in Tehran, Iran, in April 2015. The 21 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The topics of interest in FSEN span over all aspects of formal methods, especially those related to advancing the application of formal methods in software industry and promoting their integration with practical engineering techniques.

The Economic Philosophy of the Internet of Things

Author: James Juniper
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351069225
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
To properly understand the nature of the digital economy we need to investigate the phenomenon of a "ubiquitous computing system" (UCS). As defined by Robin Milner, this notion implies the following characteristics: (i) it will continually make decisions hitherto made by us; (ii) it will be vast, maybe 100 times today’s systems; (iii) it must continually adapt, on-line, to new requirements; and, (iv) individual UCSs will interact with one another. This book argues that neoclassical approaches to modelling economic behaviour based on optimal control by "representative-agents" are ill-suited to a world typified by concurrency, decentralized control, and interaction. To this end, it argues for the development of new, process-based approaches to analysis, modelling, and simulation. The book provides the context—both philosophical and mathematical—for the construction and application of new, rigorous, and meaningful analytical tools. In terms of social theory, it adopts a Post-Cognitivist approach, the elements of which include the nature philosophy of Schelling, Marx’s critique of political economy, Peircean Pragmatism, Whitehead’s process philosophy, and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of the flesh, along with cognitive scientific notions of embodied cognition and neural Darwinism, as well as more questionable notions of artificial intelligence that are encompassed by the rubric of "perception-and-action-without-intelligence".