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Programming Languages with Applications to Biology and Security

Essays Dedicated to Pierpaolo Degano on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

  • Contains refereed papers dealing with Pierpaolo Degano's main research topics
  • Includes personal memoirs and regular research papers by close collaborators
  • Covers a large variety of topics including formal program semantics, concurrency theory, systems biology, and security
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 9465)

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

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Pierpaolo Degano

    • Chiara Bodei, Gian-Luigi Ferrari, Corrado Priami
    Pages 1-6
  3. Pierpaolo, a Great Friend

    • Marco Maria Massai
    Pages 7-9
  4. Distributed Authorization with Distributed Grammars

    • Martín Abadi, Mike Burrows, Himabindu Pucha, Adam Sadovsky, Asim Shankar, Ankur Taly
    Pages 10-26
  5. Causal Trees, Finally

    • Roberto Bruni, Ugo Montanari, Matteo Sammartino
    Pages 27-43
  6. Limited Disclosure and Locality in Graphs

    • Joshua D. Guttman
    Pages 44-46
  7. Hoare Logic for Disjunctive Information Flow

    • Hanne Riis Nielson, Flemming Nielson, Ximeng Li
    Pages 47-65
  8. Alice and Bob: Reconciling Formal Models and Implementation

    • Omar Almousa, Sebastian Mödersheim, Luca Viganò
    Pages 66-85
  9. Asynchronous Traces and Open Petri Nets

    • Paolo Baldan, Filippo Bonchi, Fabio Gadducci, Giacoma V. Monreale
    Pages 86-102
  10. Compliance in Behavioural Contracts: A Brief Survey

    • Massimo Bartoletti, Tiziana Cimoli, Roberto Zunino
    Pages 103-121
  11. Safe Adaptation Through Implicit Effect Coercion

    • Davide Basile, Letterio Galletta, Gianluca Mezzetti
    Pages 122-141
  12. Validation of Decentralised Smart Contracts Through Game Theory and Formal Methods

    • Giancarlo Bigi, Andrea Bracciali, Giovanni Meacci, Emilio Tuosto
    Pages 142-161
  13. Static Evidences for Attack Reconstruction

    • Chiara Bodei, Linda Brodo, Riccardo Focardi
    Pages 162-182
  14. A Declarative View of Signaling Pathways

    • Davide Chiarugi, Moreno Falaschi, Carlos Olarte, Catuscia Palamidessi
    Pages 183-201
  15. Securing Android with Local Policies

    • Gabriele Costa
    Pages 202-218
  16. Global Protocol Implementations via Attribute-Based Communication

    • Rocco De Nicola, Claudio Antares Mezzina, Hugo Torres Vieira
    Pages 219-237
  17. Symbolic Protocol Analysis with Disequality Constraints Modulo Equational Theories

    • Santiago Escobar, Catherine Meadows, José Meseguer, Sonia Santiago
    Pages 238-261
  18. Language Representability of Finite P/T Nets

    • Roberto Gorrieri
    Pages 262-282
  19. Soulmate Algorithms

    • Fabrizio Luccio, Linda Pagli
    Pages 283-291

About this book

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Pierpaolo Degano on the occasion of his 65th birthday and is the outcome of a colloquium held in Pisa, Italy, in June 2015. Pierpaolo Degano has worked on a large variety of topics including formal program semantics, concurrency theory, systems biology and security.

The volume contains 22 refereed papers and one extended abstract, including personal memoirs and regular research papers by close collaborators and friends and a laudatio illustrating his distinguished career and his main scientific contributions. The papers deal with the main research topics explored by Pierpaolo Degano and those still under his investigation. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Chiara Bodei, Gianluigi Ferrari

  • Università degli Studi di Trento, Povo, Italy

    Corrado Priami

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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