Applications -- ILTIS – The Legacy of a Successful Product -- A Reference Control Architecture for Service Robots Implemented on a Climbing Vehicle -- An Ada Framework for QoS-Aware Applications -- Design and Scheduling Issues -- Efficient Alternatives for Implementing Fixed-Priority Schedulers -- A New Strategy for the HRT-HOOD to Ada Mapping -- Using the AADL to Describe Distributed Applica…
Basic Concepts -- Problem Formulations -- Convex and Lagrangian Relaxations -- Decomposition Methods -- Semidefinite Relaxations -- Convex Underestimators -- Cuts, Lower Bounds and Box Reduction -- Local and Global Optimality Criteria -- Adaptive Discretization of Infinite Dimensional MINLPs -- Algorithms -- Overview of Global Optimization Methods -- Deformation Heuristics -- Rounding, Partitio…
Invited Talks -- New Directions in PVM/Harness Research -- Towards a Productive MPI Environment -- Components of Systems Software for Parallel Systems -- Virtualization in Parallel Distributed Computing -- Tutorials -- Advanced Message Passing and Threading Issues -- Using MPI-2: A Problem-Based Approach -- Algorithms -- Some Improvements to a Parallel Decomposition Technique for Training Suppo…
Semantic Foundations -- Retracing the Semantics of CSP -- Seeing Beyond Divergence -- Refinement and Simulation -- Process Algebra: A Unifying Approach -- Linking Theories of Concurrency -- Hardware Synthesis -- CSP, occam and Transputers -- Models for Data-Flow Sequential Processes -- Implementation of Handshake Components -- Transactions -- A Trace Semantics for Long-Running Transactions -- P…
Basics -- Introducing Categories -- Building Categories -- Universal Constructions -- Functors -- Advanced Topics -- Functor-Based Constructions -- Adjunctions -- Applications -- CommUnity -- Architectural Description -- An Algebra of Connectors.This book provides a gentle, software engineering oriented introduction to category theory. Assuming only a minimum of mathematical preparation, this b…
1 – General Artificial Intelligence (GAIW 2005) -- Reducing Propositional Theories in Equilibrium Logic to Logic Programs -- Preference Revision Via Declarative Debugging -- Revised Stable Models – A Semantics for Logic Programs -- Operational Semantics for DyLPs -- Case Retrieval Nets for Heuristic Lexicalization in Natural Language Generation -- Partially Parametric SVM -- Adapting Hausdo…
Invited Talk -- Type Systems for XML -- The Essence of Dataflow Programming -- Data Refinement with Low-Level Pointer Operations -- A Simple Semantics for Polymorphic Recursion -- Symbolic Execution with Separation Logic -- An Abstract Interpretation Perspective on Linear vs. Branching Time -- The Parallel Implementation of the Astrée Static Analyzer -- Using Datalog with Binary Decision Diagr…
Programming with Explicit Security Policies -- Trace Partitioning in Abstract Interpretation Based Static Analyzers -- The ASTREÉ Analyzer -- Interprocedural Herbrand Equalities -- Analysis of Modular Arithmetic -- Forward Slicing by Conjunctive Partial Deduction and Argument Filtering -- A New Foundation for Control-Dependence and Slicing for Modern Program Structures -- Summaries for While P…
A System Overview -- A Rendering Architecture -- Geometry -- Shading -- Compiling -- Ray Tracing -- Global Illumination -- Image Construction -- Rendering Gems.In the past, rendering systems used a range of different approaches, each compatible and able to handle certain kinds of images. However, the last few years have seen the development of practical techniques, which bring together many are…
Invited Session I -- Protocol System Integration, Interface and Interoperability -- Session I (Design of Distributed Systems I) -- DART: Distributed Automated Regression Testing for Large-Scale Network Applications -- Testing Mobile and Distributed Systems: Method and Experimentation -- A UNITY-Based Framework Towards Component Based Systems -- Session II (Ad-Hoc Networks and Mobile Agents) -- …