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Semantics, Logics, and Calculi

Essays Dedicated to Hanne Riis Nielson and Flemming Nielson on the Occasion of Their 60th Birthdays

  • Contains refereed papers dedicated to Hanne Riis Nielson and Flemming Nielson and to their work
  • Features contributions from colleagues, who have worked together with Hanne and Flemming through their scientific life
  • Covers a large variety of topics including calculi with functional, imperative, object-oriented, concurrent, distributed, and mobile features; semantics, and logics
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 9560)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
  2. Effect Systems Revisited—Control-Flow Algebra and Semantics

    • Alan Mycroft, Dominic Orchard, Tomas Petricek
    Pages 1-32
  3. Last Mile’s Resources

    • Chiara Bodei, Pierpaolo Degano, Gian-Luigi Ferrari, Letterio Galletta
    Pages 33-53
  4. Formal Modelling and Analysis of Socio-Technical Systems

    • Christian W. Probst, Florian Kammüller, René Rydhof Hansen
    Pages 54-73
  5. Static Timing Analysis – What is Special?

    • Jan Reineke, Reinhard Wilhelm
    Pages 74-87
  6. An Automata-Based Approach to Trace Partitioned Abstract Interpretation

    • Mads Christian Olesen, René Rydhof Hansen, Kim Guldstrand Larsen
    Pages 88-110
  7. Abstract Interpretation of PEPA Models

    • Stephen Gilmore, Jane Hillston, Natalia Zoń
    Pages 140-158
  8. Static Analysis of Parity Games: Alternating Reachability Under Parity

    • Michael Huth, Jim Huan-Pu Kuo, Nir Piterman
    Pages 159-177
  9. Game Theory and Industrial Control Systems

    • Chris Hankin
    Pages 178-190
  10. Playing with Abstraction and Representation

    • Bernhard Steffen, Malte Isberner, Marc Jasper
    Pages 191-213
  11. Schedulers are no Prophets

    • Arnd Hartmanns, Holger Hermanns, Jan Krčál
    Pages 214-235
  12. Replicating Data for Better Performances in X10

    • Marina Andrić, Rocco De Nicola, Alberto Lluch Lafuente
    Pages 236-251
  13. Enhancing Top-Down Solving with Widening and Narrowing

    • Kalmer Apinis, Helmut Seidl, Vesal Vojdani
    Pages 272-288
  14. Rule Formats for Bounded Nondeterminism in Structural Operational Semantics

    • Luca Aceto, Álvaro García-Pérez, Anna Ingólfsdóttir
    Pages 313-343
  15. Back Matter

    Pages 345-345

About this book

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Hanne Riis Nielson and Flemming Nielson on the occasion of their 60th birthdays in 2014 and 2015, respectively. The papers included in this volume deal with the wide area of calculi, semantics, and analysis.

The book features contributions from colleagues, who have worked together with Hanne and Flemming through their scientific life and are dedicated to them and to their work. The papers were presented at a colloquium at the Technical University of Denmark in January 2016. 

Reviews

“The collection at hand contains a fairly varied set of contributions, quite well anchored around the themes of the Nielsons’ work. … The overall quality is excellent. The variety of topics touched is quite broad … .” (Jacques Carette, Computing Reviews, April, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    Christian W. Probst

  • Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    Chris Hankin

  • Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    René Rydhof Hansen

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