Paul Pettersson – författare

Have you thought of how it feels to be an AI brain in the world of humans? This book allows such a brain to tell us how it takes on its mission of helping humans to develop a more efficient, sustainable, diverse and inclusive society.This book explains the principles and applications of artificial intelligence for a broad audience. Artificial intelligence, as part of computer science, is often inspired by human intelligence. At the same time, there is still reluctance in the applications and usability of artificial intelligence among citizens. Industries are deploying AI in their products and processes but the level of maturity is varying. The book is written as a first person narrative, from an AI perspective, having the AI brain tell the story.

Have you thought of how it feels to be an AI brain in the world of humans? This book allows such a brain to tell us how it takes on its mission of helping humans to develop a more efficient, sustainable, diverse and inclusive society.This book explains the principles and applications of artificial intelligence for a broad audience. Artificial intelligence, as part of computer science, is often inspired by human intelligence. At the same time, there is still reluctance in the applications and usability of artificial intelligence among citizens. Industries are deploying AI in their products and processes but the level of maturity is varying. The book is written as a first person narrative, from an AI perspective, having the AI brain tell the story.

This Festschrift reflects Professor Wang Yi's contributions to the fields of formal methods, real-time systems and scheduling, and multicore systems.Wang Yi received a PhD in Computer Science from Chalmers University of Technology in 1991, since 2000 he has been Chair in Embedded Systems at Uppsala University. He has not only pushed the boundaries of theoretical research but also pioneered practical implementations in software tools that have had a profound impact on both academia and industry. He codeveloped the UPPAAL tool, the foremost system for verifying timed automata, now widely used in both academia and industry. Over the years he expanded his research to include scheduling theories, and he developed the TIMES and TIMES-Pro tools, which enhanced the analysis and implementation of real-time systems. His innovative work has significantly influenced the design and verification of complex, multicore real-time systems. Among many awards, honours, and responsibilities, Wang received a grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council in 2019, Uppsala University’s Rudbeck Medal, the IEEE TCRTS Award for technical achievement and leadership in real-time computing, and the CAV Award; he is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and a member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala and the Academia Europaea; and he has chaired major software engineering and embedded system conferences and served on ACM SIGBED and IEEE TCRTS executive committees. His guidance and mentorship have shaped the careers of many researchers and professionals in the field, and the contributions in this volume celebrate his enduring impact.

Confessions of an AI Brain, Second Edition invites readers to not only to understand how AI works, but to imagine, question, and actively shape the kind of AI‑enabled future they want to build. By framing AI as a narrator, the book ventures inside the mind of MIRANDA, a fictional yet technically grounded AI brain that narrates its own coming‑of‑age in a world saturated with algorithms, data, and digital infrastructure. Blending clear explanations with an engaging first-person voice, the book demystifies how modern AI systems are built, trained, deployed, and governed—without assuming any mathematical or programming background. Along the way, MIRANDA reflects on topics such as learning from data, bias and fairness, neurosymbolic reasoning, agentic AI, foundation models, digital twins, and the infrastructure that makes intelligent services possible.Rather than treating AI as a black box or distant threat, the narrative frames it as a partner in a shared human–machine ecosystem, exploring how artificial and biological minds co‑evolve at home, in industry, in cities, and in our creative lives. Through concrete examples — from baby steps in safe sandboxes and “data diets” to multi‑agent systems, climate‑aware optimization, and AI‑assisted art, music, and writing — the book shows how AI can be designed to support sustainability, inclusiveness, and human flourishing. Readers gain an intuitive grasp of core concepts like machine learning styles, attention and transformers, trustworthy and explainable AI, and the role of regulation and ethics, all framed through MIRANDA’s candid “confessions” about its capabilities and limitations.Aimed at curious general readers as well as professionals and students who want a concept-focused overview, Confessions of an AI Brain bridges technical insight and societal reflection in an accessible, story‑driven format. It is also a useful companion for engineers, business leaders, policymakers, creatives, and anyone adopting AI in their work and want to ask better questions about data quality, safety, bias, responsibility, and long‑term impact.

This volume contains the proceedings of FORMATS 2005, the Third Inter- tional Conference on Formal Modelling and Analysis of Timed Systems, held in Uppsala, Sweden, September 26-28, 2005, in conjunction with ARTIST2 s- mer school, September 29-October 2, 2005, on Component Modelling, Testing and Veri?cation, and Static Analysis of Embedded Systems. FORMATS is an annual workshop series initiated in 2003. It is dedicated to the advancement of formaltheories,techniquesandsoftwaretoolsformodellingandanalysisoftimed systems. FORMATS 2003 wasassociatedto CONCUR 2003(International C- ference on Concurrency Theory), held in Marseilles, France. FORMATS 2004 was organized in conjunction with FTRTFT (Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault Tolerant Systems), Grenoble, France. This year, FORMATS received 43 submissions out of which 19 papers were selected for presentation by the ProgramCommittee. Each of the submitted - pers has been reviewed by at least three PC members and their sub-reviewers. The scienti?c program of FORMATS 2005 contained three invited talks: Lothar Thiele(ModularPerformanceAnalysisofDistributedEmbeddedSystems),Karl- ?Erik Arz' en (Timing Analysis and Simulation Tools for Real-Time Control) and Parosh Abdulla (Veri?cation of Parameterised Timed Systems). The 19 - lected contributions cover work on semantics and modelling of timed systems, formalisms for modelling and veri?cation including timed automata, hybrid automata, and timed Petri nets, games for veri?cation and synthesis, mod- checking, case studies and issues related to implementation, security and perf- mance analysis.

Im Asylrecht werden gleiche Tatsachenfragen von den Gerichten häufig unterschiedlich beantwortet. Die Uneinheitlichkeit betrifft ‚kollektive Gefährdungslagen‘ wie die Gefährdung syrischer Wehrdienstentzieher oder alleinstehender Männer in Afghanistan. Paul Pettersson verdeutlicht anhand eines Korpus von Gerichtsentscheidungen zum Irak die große Bedeutung kollektiver Gefährdungslagen für die asylrechtliche Gefahrenprognose und leitet zu einer systematischen Prüfung an. Anschließend stellt er mit Methoden der juristischen Netzwerkanalyse den Kommunikationsprozess der Gerichte über Länderleitentscheidungen dar. Die neue Tatsachenkompetenz des BVerwG wird aus Sicht des Autors die grundlegenden Probleme nicht lösen. Stattdessen sollte die diskursive Aushandlung der Tatsachenfragen zwischen den Gerichten und dem BAMF gestärkt werden.