Alexandre Petrenko – författare

The Problem of the Unknown Component: Theory and Applications addresses the issue of designing a component that, combined with a known part of a system, conforms to an overall specification. The authors tackle this problem by solving abstract equations over a language. The most general solutions are studied when both synchronous and parallel composition operators are used. The abstract equations are specialized to languages associated with important classes of automata used for modeling systems. The book is a blend of theory and practice, which includes a description of a software package with applications to sequential synthesis of finite state machines. Specific topologies interconnecting the components, exact and heuristic techniques, and optimization scenarios are studied. Finally the scope is enlarged to domains like testing, supervisory control, game theory and synthesis for special omega languages. The authors present original results of the authors along with an overview of existing ones.

The Problem of the Unknown Component: Theory and Applications addresses the issue of designing a component that, combined with a known part of a system, conforms to an overall specification. The authors tackle this problem by solving abstract equations over a language. The most general solutions are studied when both synchronous and parallel composition operators are used. The abstract equations are specialized to languages associated with important classes of automata used for modeling systems. The book is a blend of theory and practice, which includes a description of a software package with applications to sequential synthesis of finite state machines. Specific topologies interconnecting the components, exact and heuristic techniques, and optimization scenarios are studied. Finally the scope is enlarged to domains like testing, supervisory control, game theory and synthesis for special omega languages. The authors present original results of the authors along with an overview of existing ones.

Testing has steadily become more and more important within the development of software and systems, motivating an increasing amount of research aimed at tryingtosolvebothnewchallengesimposedbytheadvancementinvariousareas of computer science and long-standing problems. Testing has evolved during the last decades from an ad-hoc and under-exposed area of systems development to an important and active research area. The22ndInternationalConferenceonTestingSoftwareandSystems(ICTSS) involved the merger of two traditional and important events which have served the testing community as an important venue for discussing advancements in the area. Those events, namely, TestCom (the IFIP TC 6/WG 6.1 Inter- tional Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems), and FATES (Inter- tional Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software), together form a large event on testing, validation, and speci?cation of software and systems. They have a long history. TestCom is an IFIP-sponsored series of international conferences,previouslyalsocalledInternationalWorkshoponProtocolTestS- tems(IWPTS)orInternationalWorkshoponTestingofCommunicatingSystems (IWTCS).It is devoted to testing of communicating systems, including testing of communication protocols, services, distributed platforms, and middleware.