Full Description
This Festschrift volume has been published in honor of
Frank de Boer, on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
Frank S. de Boer is a prominent member of the research community in formal
methods and theoretical computer science. A brief look at his lengthy
publication list reveals a broad area of interest and a versatile modus
operandi with: logic and constraint programming; deductive proof systems,
soundness, and completeness; semantics, compositionality, and full abstraction;
process algebra and decidability; multithreading and actor-based concurrency;
agent programming, ontologies, and modal logic; real-time systems, timed
automata, and schedulability; enterprise architectures, choreography, and
coordination; testing and runtime monitoring; and cloud computing and service-level
agreements. For a while, he also liked failures, especially in semantics, and
optimistically concluded with the failure of failures. In fact, Frank has an
opportunistic approach to research. Rather than seeing obstacles, he finds
opportunities.
Contents
Program Verification: to Err is
Human.-
Fond (and Frank) Memories of Frank.- Warmest Congratulations, Frank.- Conformance
Checking of Real-Time Models: Symbolic Execution vs. Bounded Model Checking.- Resource
Analysis of Distributed Systems.- Comparing Trace Expressions and Linear
Temporal Logic for Runtime Verification.- Proper Protocol.- A Compositional
Approach to the Verification of Hybrid Systems.- Array Abstraction with
Symbolic Pivots.- Modeling Role-Based Systems with Exogenous Coordination.- Vats:
A Safe, Reactive Storage Abstraction.- Denotational and Operational Preciseness
of Subtyping: A Roadmap.- A Sound and Complete Hoare Logic for
Dynamically-Typed, Object-Oriented Programs.- Self-Reconfiguring
Microservices.- Statically and Dynamically Verifiable SLA metrics.- Effectively
Eliminating Auxiliaries.- Towards a Proof Method for Paradigm.- Toward a Formal
Foundation for Time Travel in Stories and Games.- Industrial Application of
Formal Models Generated from Domain SpecificLanguages.- Formal Verification of
Open Normative Multi-Agent System.- Moessner's Theorem: An Exercise in Coinductive
Reasoning in Coq.- Towards a Kool Future.- On the Expressiveness of Synchronization
in Component Deployment.- Characterisation of Simulation by Probabilistic
Testing.- On Time Actors.- A Small-Step Semantics of a Concurrent Calculus with
Goroutines and Deferred Functions.- Quicksort Revisited - Verifying Alternative
Versions of Quicksort.
