Marcello Bonsangue - Böcker

This Festschrift volume has been published in honor ofFrank de Boer, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Frank S. For a while, he also liked failures, especially in semantics, andoptimistically concluded with the failure of failures.

This Festschrift volume has been published to celebrate the lifelong scientific achievements of Farhad Arbab on the occasion of his retirement from the Centre of Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI).Over the years Farhad Arbab  has sucessfully been engaged in scientific explorations in various directions: Software Composition, Service Oriented Computing, Component-based Software, Concurrency Theory, Coordination Models and Languages, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Visual Programming Environments, Constraints, Logic and Object-Oriented Programming.Farhad Arbab has shaped the field of Coordination Models and Languages. His insight that it is all about exeogeneous coordination gave rise to the striking elegance and beauty of Reo: an exogenous coordination model based on a formal calculus of channel composition. Reo has been extremely successful and is having a great impact in many of the areas mentioned above.The present volume collects a number of papers by several of Farhad’s close collaborators over the years.

This book presents revised tutorial lectures given by invited speakers at the First International Symposium on Formal Methods for Components and Objects, FMCO 2002, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in November 2002.The 21 revised lectures by leading researchers present a comprehensive account of the potential of formal methods applied to complex software systems such as components and object systems. The book makes a unique contribution to bridging the gap between theory and practice in software engineering.