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Formal Methods for the Quantitative Evaluation of Collective Adaptive Systems

16th International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication, and Software Systems, SFM 2016, Bertinoro, Italy, June 20-24, 2016, Advanced Lectures

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  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
  2. Formal Specification and Analysis of Robust Adaptive Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems

    • Carolyn Talcott, Vivek Nigam, Farhad Arbab, Tobias Kappé
    Pages 1-35
  3. Mean-Field Limits Beyond Ordinary Differential Equations

    • Luca Bortolussi, Nicolas Gast
    Pages 61-82
  4. Spatial Logic and Spatial Model Checking for Closure Spaces

    • Vincenzo Ciancia, Diego Latella, Michele Loreti, Mieke Massink
    Pages 156-201
  5. Quantitative Abstractions for Collective Adaptive Systems

    • Andrea Vandin, Mirco Tribastone
    Pages 202-232
  6. Aggregate Programming: From Foundations to Applications

    • Jacob Beal, Mirko Viroli
    Pages 233-260
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 261-261

About this book

This book presents 8 tutorial lectures given by leading researchers at the 16th edition of the International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication and Software Systems, SFM 2016, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in June 2016. 
SFM 2016 was devoted to the Quantitative Evaluation of Collective Adaptive Systems and covered topics such as self-organization in distributed systems, scalable quantitative analysis, spatio-temporal models, and aggregate programming.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Sci. Pure e Applicate, Università di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Urbino, Italy

    Marco Bernardo

  • IMT - School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy

    Rocco De Nicola

  • School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Jane Hillston

About the editors

Lecturers of the SFM International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication, and Software Systems

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