Carolyn Talcott – författare

This Festschrift was published in honor of Andre Scedrov on the occasion of his 65th birthday.

The 11 technical papers and 3 short papers included in this volume show the many transformative discoveries made by Andre Scedrov in the areas of linear logic and structural proof theory; formal reasoning for networked systems; and foundations of information security emphasizing cryptographic protocols. These papers are authored by researchers around the world, including North America, Russia, Europe, and Japan, that have been directly or indirectly impacted by Andre Scedrov.

The chapter “A Small Remark on Hilbert''s Finitist View of Divisibility and Kanovich-Okada-Scedrov''s Logical Analysis of Real-Time Systems” is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

This book presents joint works of members of the software engineering and formal methods communities with representatives from industry, with the goal of establishing the foundations for a common understanding of the needs for more flexibility in model-driven engineering. It is based on the Dagstuhl Seminar 19481 „Composing Model-Based Analysis Tools“, which was held November 24 to 29, 2019, at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, where current challenges, their background and concepts to address them were discussed.

The book is structured in two parts, and organized around five fundamental core aspects of the subject: (1) the composition of languages, models and analyses; (2) the integration and orchestration of analysis tools; (3) the continual analysis of models; (4) the exploitation of results; and (5) the way to handle uncertainty in model-based developments. After a chapter on foundations and common terminology and a chapter on challenges in the field, one chapter is devoted toeach of the above five core aspects in the first part of the book. These core chapters are accompanied by additional case studies in the second part of the book, in which specific tools and experiences are presented in more detail to illustrate the concepts and ideas previously introduced.

The book mainly targets researchers in the fields of software engineering and formal methods as well as software engineers from industry with basic familiarity with quality properties, model-driven engineering and analysis tools. From reading the book, researchers will receive an overview of the state-of-the-art and current challenges, research directions, and recent concepts, while practitioners will be interested to learn about concrete tools and practical applications in the context of case studies.

This Festschrift volume, dedicated to Marjan Sirjani on the occasion of her 60th birthday, includes refereed papers by leading researchers.

Marjan Sirjani received her PhD in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology for work on the Formal Specification and Verification of Concurrent and Reactive Systems. After Postdoc, Lecturer, Visiting Scholar, Associate Professor, and Professor positions in Iran, The Netherlands, Iceland, and the US, she has been a Professor in the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering of Mälardalen University since 2016. Her main fields of interest are Software Engineering, Formal Methods, Cyber-Physical Systems Analysis, Model Checking, Distributed Systems, and Applying Formal Methods in System Design. Among other successes, Marjan invented the Rebeca modelling language, one of the best-known actor-based languages with a formal semantics and a wealth of analysis and verification tools. Rebeca has been used in modelling and analysis of a wide range of systems, including in domains such as biomedical engineering, automotive, and aviation.

Throughout her career, Marjan has trained many students and worked successfully with a range of scientists and engineers across disciplines, these collaborations are reflected in the papers in this volume.