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This volume constitutes the papers of two workshops which were held in conjunction with the 21st International Workshop on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2023 Collocated Workshops, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on November 6–10, 2023 The 10 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. SEFM 2023 Collocated Workshops presents the following two workshops: 5th International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications (CIFMA 2023) 11th International Workshop on Open Community approaches to Education, Research and Technology (OpenCERT 2023)

This volume constitutes the revised selected papers from the four workshops collocated with the 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2022, held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2022. The 19 full papers presented together with 9 short papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 39 submissions. The contributions that are collected in this volume have been selected from the presentations at the following workshops: AI4EA 2022: First Berlin Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Applications; F-IDE 2022: 7th Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment; CoSim-CPS 2022: 6th Workshop on Formal Co-Simulation of Cyber-Physical Systems; CIFMA 2022: 4th International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications.

This book includes extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2022, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during July 11–13, 2022. The 10 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: tool assisted empirical approach to reusability models assessment; functional programming; three forms of mutant subsumption: basic, strict and broad; and on the efficiency of building large collections of software: modeling, algorithms, and experimental results.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 23rd International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, TFP 2022, which was held virtually in March 2022.The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. They deal with all aspects of functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 24th International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, TFP 2023, held in Boston, MA, USA, during January 12–15, 2023. The 6 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. They span a wide variety of topics including DSL design and implementation, dependent type systems, instruction set architecture, data structures, and logic programming.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2020, which was held virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The 12 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. The papers deal with the following topics: business process modelling; IT service management; interoperability and service-oriented architecture; project management software; scheduling and estimating; software metrics; requirements elicitation and specification; software and systems integration among others.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 32nd International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2019, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in October 2019.The 8 revised full papers and 3 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. The scope of the workshop includes advances in programming systems for current domains and platforms, e.g., scientific computing, batch/ streaming/ real-time data analytics, machine learning, cognitive computing, heterogeneous/ reconfigurable computing, mobile computing, cloud computing, IoT, as well as forward-looking computing domains such as analog and quantum computing.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 28th International Workshop on Functional and Constraint Logic Programming, WFLP 2020, held in Bologna, Italy, in September 2020.Due to the COVID-19, the workshop was held online. From the 19 full papers submitted, 8 were accepted for presentation at the workshop. The accepted papers cover different programming areas of functional and logic programming, including code generation, verification, and debugging.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the Second International Workshop on Modelling to Program, M2P 2020, held in Lappeenranta, Finland, in March 2020.The 10 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers provide a discussion on novel approaches to programming based on modelling approaches such as model-driven development (MDE, MDA, MDD) and conceptual-model programming and their future developments. The topics of the papers include notions of models that can be understood and used as programs, models-at-runtime, advanced conceptual modelling, conceptual-model programming, modelling foundation, transformation of models to programs, model suites/ensembles for programmers, modelling as the first step to programming and its revisions, advanced model-driven programming and software modernisation, modelling in applications.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 22nd International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, TFP 2021, which was held virtually in February 2020. The 6 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They were organized in topical sections about nested parallelism, semantics, task-oriented programming and modelling, translating, proving functional programs. Chapter ‘Dataset Sensitive Autotuning of Multi-Versioned Code based on Monotonic Properties'is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Chapter ‘High-level Modelling for Typed Functional Programming'is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes selected, revised and extended papers of the 15th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2020, held in virtual format, in May 2020.The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The papers included in this book contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on novel approaches to software engineering for the development and maintenance of systems and applications, specically with relation to: model-driven software engineering, requirements engineering, empirical software engineering, service-oriented software engineering, business process management and engineering, knowledge management and engineering, reverse software engineering, software process improvement, software change and configuration management, software metrics, software patterns and refactoring, application integration, software architecture, cloud computing, and formalmethods.

This book constitutes thoroughly revised and selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, MODELSWARD 2020, held in Valletta, Malta, in February 2020. The 15 revised and extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They present recent research results and development activities in using models and model driven engineering techniques for software development. The papers are organized in topical sections on​ methodologies, processes and platforms; applications and software development; modeling languages, tools and architectures.

This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2023, held in Rome, Italy, during July 10–12, 2023. The 7 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 129 submissions. They focus on Software Engineering and Systems Development; Software Systems and Applications; and Foundational and Trigger Technologies.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed revised selected papers of the 20th International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, TFP 2019, held in Vancouver, Canada, in June 2019. The 6 revised full papers were selected from 11 submissions and present papers in all aspects of functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results, and other contributions, described in draft papers submitted prior to the symposium.

The two-volume set LNCS 12043 and 12044 constitutes revised selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2019, held in Bialystok, Poland, in September 2019.The 91 regular papers presented in these volumes were selected from 161 submissions. For regular tracks of the conference, 41 papers were selected from 89 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named as follows: Part I: numerical algorithms and parallel scientific computing; emerging HPC architectures; performance analysis and scheduling in HPC systems; environments and frameworks for parallel/distributed/cloud computing; applications of parallel computing; parallel non-numerical algorithms; soft computing with applications; special session on GPU computing; special session on parallel matrix factorizations. Part II: workshop on language-based parallel programming models (WLPP 2019); workshop on models algorithms and methodologies for hybrid parallelism in new HPC systems; workshop on power and energy aspects of computations (PEAC 2019); special session on tools for energy efficient computing; workshop on scheduling for parallel computing (SPC 2019); workshop on applied high performance numerical algorithms for PDEs; minisymposium on HPC applications in physical sciences; minisymposium on high performance computing interval methods; workshop on complex collective systems. Chapters'Parallel Adaptive Cross Approximation for the Multi-trace Formulation of Scattering Problems'and'A High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Solver with Dynamic Adaptive Mesh Refinement to Simulate Cloud Formation Processes'are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 21st International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, TFP 2020, which was held in Krakow, Poland, during February 13-14, 2020. The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: domain-specific languages; debugging and testing; reasoning and effects; and parallelism.

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Conference and 10th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, MODELSWARD 2021 and MODELSWARD 2022, was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis on February 8–10, 2021 and February 6–8, 2022.The 11 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. The purpose of the International Conference on model-driven engineering and software development is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academics as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in using models and model driven engineering techniques for system development.

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information, this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning, TLLM 2022, which was held virtually in April 2022.The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. The workshop covers a wide range of topics such as dynamic semantics, logical dynamics, Dynamic Epistemic Logic, Discourse Representation Theory, formal semantics, free choice inference, update semantics, and donkey sentences.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on High Performance Computing in Computational Science, VECPAR 2018, held in São Pedro, Brazil, in September 2018. The 17 full papers and one short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions presented at the conference. The papers cover the following topics: heterogeneous systems, shared memory systems and GPUs, and techniques including domain decomposition, scheduling and load balancing, with a strong focus on computational science applications.

This book contains the revised selected papers of 4 workshops held in conjunction with the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC) in November 2017 in Denver, CO, USA, and in November 2018 in Dallas, TX, USA: the 6th and 7th International Workshop on Extreme-Scale Programming Tools, ESPT 2017 and ESPT 2018, and the 4th and 5th International Workshop on Visual Performance Analysis, VPA 2017 and VPA 2018. The 11 full papers of ESPT 2017 and ESPT 2018 and the 6 full papers of VPA 2017 and VPA 2018 were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The papers discuss the requirements for exascale-enabled tools as well as new approaches of applying visualization and visual analytic techniques to large-scale applications. Topics of interest include: programming tools; methodologies for performance engineering; tool technologies for extreme-scale challenges (e.g., scalability, resilience, power); tool support for accelerated architectures and large-scale multi-cores; tool infrastructures and environments; evolving/future application requirements for programming tools and technologies; application developer experiences with programming and performance tools; scalable displays of performance data; case studies demonstrating the use of performance visualization in practice; data models to enable scalable visualization; graph representation of unstructured performance data; presentation of high-dimensional data; visual correlations between multiple data sources; human-computer interfaces for exploring performance data; and multi-scale representations of performance data for visual exploration.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th Russian Supercomputing Days, RuSCDays 2019, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2019.The 60 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: parallel algorithms; supercomputer simulation; HPC, BigData, AI: architectures, technologies, tools; and distributed and cloud computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2021, Virtual Event, July 6–8, 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis.The 10 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 33rd International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2020, held in Stony Brook, NY, USA, in October 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 15 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections named as follows: Code and Data Transformations; OpenMP and Fortran; Domain Specific Compilation; Machine Language and Quantum Computing; Performance Analysis; Code Generation.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed revised selected papers of the 18th International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, TFP 2017, held in Canterbury, UK, in June 2017. The 8 revised full papers were selected from 16 submissions and present papers in all aspects of functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area.

The two-volume set LNCS 10777 and 10778 constitutes revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2017, held in Lublin, Poland, in September 2017.The 49 regular papers presented in the proceedings were selected from 98 submissions. For the workshops and special sessions, that were held as integral parts of the PPAM 2017 conference, a total of 51 papers was accepted from 75 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named as follows:Part I: numerical algorithms and parallel scientific computing; particle methods in simulations; task-based paradigm of parallel computing; GPU computing; parallel non-numerical algorithms; performance evaluation of parallel algorithms and applications; environments and frameworks for parallel/distributed/cloud computing; applications of parallel computing; soft computing with applications; and special session on parallel matrix factorizations.Part II: workshop on models, algorithms and methodologies for hybrid parallelism in new HPC systems; workshop power and energy aspects of computations (PEAC 2017); workshop on scheduling for parallel computing (SPC 2017); workshop on language-based parallel programming models (WLPP 2017); workshop on PGAS programming; minisymposium on HPC applications in physical sciences; minisymposium on high performance computing interval methods; workshop on complex collective systems.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security, GraMSec 2017, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2017. The 5 full and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The book also contains one invited paper from the WISER project. The contributions deal with the latest research and developments on graphical models for security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Russian Supercomputing Days, RuSCDays 2017, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2017.The 41 revised full papers and one revised short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on parallel algorithms; supercomputer simulation; high performance architectures, tools and technologies.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from 10 workshops that were held as the ISC High Performance 2017 conference in Frankfurt, Germany, in June 2017. The 59 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. They stem from the following workshops: Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC)Visualization at Scale: Deployment Case Studies and Experience ReportsInternational Workshop on Performance Portable Programming Models for Accelerators (P^3MA)OpenPOWER for HPC (IWOPH)International Workshop on Data Reduction for Big Scientific Data (DRBSD)International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme ScaleWorkshop on HPC Computing in a Post Moore's Law World (HCPM)HPC I/O in the Data Center ( HPC-IODC) Workshop on Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems (WOPSSS)IXPUG: Experiences on Intel Knights Landing at the One Year MarkInternational Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale (ExaComm)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 29th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2016, held in Rochester, NY, USA, in September 2016. The 20 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed. The papers are organized in topical sections on large scale parallelism, resilience and persistence, compiler analysis and optimization, dynamic computation and languages, GPUs and private memory, and runt-time and performance analysis.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel Computational Technologies, PCT 2017, held in Kazan, Russia, in April 2017. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on high performance architectures, tools and technologies; parallel numerical algorithms; supercomputer simulation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Russian Supercomputing Days, RuSCDays 2016, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2016. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on the present of supercomputing: large tasks solving experience; the future of supercomputing: new technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of 13 workshops held at the 33rd International ISC High Performance 2018 Conference, in Frankfurt, Germany, in June 2018: HPC I/O in the Data Center, HPC-IODC 2018; Workshop on Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems, WOPSSS 2018; 13th Workshop on Virtualization in High­-Performance Cloud Computing, VHPC 2018; Third International Workshop on In Situ Visualization, WOIV 2018; 4th International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale, ExaComm 2018; International Workshop on OpenPOWER for HPC, IWOPH 2018; IXPUG Workshop: Many-Core Computing on Intel Processors; Workshop on Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems; Approximate and Transprecision Computing on Emerging Technologies, ATCET 2018; First Workshop on the Convergence of Large-Scale Simulation and Artificial Intelligence; Third Workshop for Open Source Supercomputing, OpenSuCo 2018; First Workshop on Interactive High-Performance Computing; Workshop on Performance Portable Programming Models for Accelerators, P^3MA 2018. The 53 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. They cover all aspects of research, development, and application of large-scale, high performance experimental and commercial systems. Topics include HPC computer architecture and hardware; programming models, system software, and applications; solutions for heterogeneity, reliability, power efficiency of systems; virtualization and containerized environments; big data and cloud computing; and artificial intelligence.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in April 2017.The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. The mission of ENASE is to be a prime international forum to discuss and publish research findings and IT industry experiences with relation to the evaluation of novel approaches to software engineering. The conference acknowledges necessary changes in systems and software thinking due to contemporary shifts of computing paradigm to e-services, cloud computing, mobile connectivity, business processes, and societal participation.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering, FSEN 2017, held in Tehran, Iran, in April 2017. The 16 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The topics of interest in FSEN span over all aspects of formal methods, especially those related to advancing the application of formal methods in software industry and promoting their integration with practical engineering techniques.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the workshops held at the 37th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ISCA 2010, in Saint-Malo, France, in June 2010. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from the lectures given at 5 of these workshops. The papers address topics ranging from novel memory architectures to emerging application design and performance analysis and encompassed the following workshops: A4MMC, applications for multi- and many-cores; AMAS-BT, 3rd workshop on architectural and micro-architectural support for binary translation; EAMA, the 3rd Workshop for emerging applications and many-core architectures; WEED, 2nd Workshop on energy efficient design, as well as WIOSCA, the annual workshop on the interaction between operating systems and computer architecture.

The information infrastructure – comprising computers, embedded devices, networks and software systems – is vital to operations in every sector: inf- mation technology, telecommunications, energy, banking and?nance, tra- portation systems, chemicals, agriculture and food, defense industrial base, public health and health care, national monuments and icons, drinking water and water treatment systems, commercial facilities, dams, emergency services, commercial nuclear reactors, materials and waste, postal and shipping, and government facilities. Global business and industry, governments, indeed - ciety itself, cannot function if major components of the critical information infrastructure are degraded, disabled or destroyed. This book, Critical Infrastructure Protection IV, is the fourth volume in the annual series produced by IFIP Working Group 11.10 on Critical Infr- tructure Protection, an active international community of scientists, engineers, practitioners and policy makers dedicated to advancing research, development and implementation e?orts related to critical infrastructure protection. The book presents original research results and innovative applications in the area of infrastructure protection. Also, it highlights the importance of weaving s- ence, technology and policy in crafting sophisticated, yet practical, solutions that will help secure information, computer and network assets in the various critical infrastructure sectors. This volume contains seventeen edited papers from the Fourth Annual IFIP Working Group 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure P- tection, held at the National Defense University, Washington, DC, March 15– 17, 2010. The papers were refereed by members of IFIP Working Group 11.10 and otherinternationally-recognized experts in critical infrastructure prot- tion.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of 19th International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation, PATMOS 2009, featuring Integrated Circuit and System Design, held in Delft, The Netherlands during September 9-11, 2009. The 26 revised full papers and 10 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on variability & statistical timing, circuit level techniques, power management, low power circuits & technology, system level techniques, power & timing optimization techniques, self-timed circuits, low power circuit analysis & optimization, and low power design studies.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2007, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in June 2007, in conjunction with the 21st ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, ICS 2007. The 10 revised full research papers presented went through the process of strict reviewing and subsequent improvement. The papers cover all current issues of job scheduling strategies for parallel processing from the supercomputer-centric viewpoint but also address many nontraditional high-performance computing and parallel environments that cannot or need not access a traditional supercomputer, such as grids, Web services, and commodity parallel computers. The papers are organized in topical sections on performance and tools, queueing systems, as well as grid and heterogeneous architectures.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First International Workshop on Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems, LADS 2007, held in Durham, UK, in September 2007. The workshop was part of MALLOW 2007, a federation of workshops on Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organizations. The 15 revised full papers, presented together with 1 invited paper reporting the aims and achievements of the OpenKnowledge project, were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent reasoning and semantics, declarative languages and technologies, methodologies and design, and development frameworks.

This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers that were p- sented during the 16th edition of the IFIP/IEEE WG10.5 International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, a global System-on-a-Chip Design & CAD conference. The 16th conference was held at the Grand Hotel of Rhodes Island, Greece (October 13–15, 2008). Previous conferences have taken place in Edinburgh, Trondheim, V- couver, Munich, Grenoble, Tokyo, Gramado, Lisbon, Montpellier, Darmstadt, Perth, Nice and Atlanta. VLSI-SoC 2008 was the 16th in a series of international conferences sponsored by IFIP TC 10 Working Group 10.5 and IEEE CEDA that explores the state of the art and the new developments in the field of VLSI systems and their designs. The purpose of the conference was to provide a forum to exchange ideas and to present industrial and research results in the fields of VLSI/ULSI systems, embedded systems and - croelectronic design and test.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations, LSSC 2005, held in Sozopol, Bulgaria in June 2005. The 75 revised full papers presented together with five invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections.

This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers that were presented during the fifteenth edition of the IFIP/IEEE WG10.5 International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, a global System-on-a-Chip Design & CAD conference. The 15th conference was held at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA (October 15-17, 2007). Previous conferences have taken place in Edinburgh, Trondheim, Vancouver, Munich, Grenoble, Tokyo, Gramado, Lisbon, Montpellier, Darmstadt, Perth and Nice. The purpose of this conference, sponsored by IFIP TC 10 Working Group 10.5 and by the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), is to provide a forum to exchange ideas and show industrial and academic research results in the field of microelectronics design. The current trend toward increasing chip integration and technology process advancements brings about stimulating new challenges both at the physical and system-design levels, as well in the test of these systems. VLSI-SoC conferences aim to address these exciting new issues.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2006, held in Saint-Malo, France in June 2006 in conjunction with the Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems SIGMETRICS/Performance 2006. The 12 revised full research papers cover all current issues of job scheduling strategies for parallel processing.

This book presents the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR'98 held in Manchester, UK in June 1998. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected during three rounds of inspection from a total of initially 36 extended abstracts submitted. Also included are eight short papers. Among the topics covered are logic specification, mathematical program construction, logic programming, computational logics, inductive program synthesis, constraint logic programs, and mathematical foundations.

The Fifth International Conference on Implementation and Application of - tomata (CIAA 2000) was held at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada on July 24-25, 2000. This conference series was formerly called the International Workshop on Implementing Automata (WIA) This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series contains all the papers that were presented at CIAA 2000, and also the abstracts of the poster papers that were displayed during the conference. The conference addressed issues in automata application and implemen- tion. The topics of the papers presented at this conference ranged from automata applications in software engineering, natural language and speech recognition, and image processing, to new representations and algorithms for e cient imp- mentation of automata and related structures. Automata theory is one of the oldest areas in computer science. Research in automata theory has always been motivated by its applications since its early stages of development. In the 1960s and 1970s, automata research was moti- ted heavily by problems arising from compiler construction, circuit design, string matching, etc. In recent years, many new applications have been found in various areas of computer science as well as in other disciplines. Examples of the new applications include statecharts in object-oriented modeling, nite transducers in natural language processing, and nondeterministic nite-state models in c- munication protocols. Many of the new applications do not and cannot simply apply the existing models and algorithms in automata theory to their problems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference, PSI 2001, held in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia, in July 2001.The 50 revised papers presented together with 2 invited memorial papers devoted to the work of Andrei Ershov were carefully selected during 2 rounds of reviewing and improvement. The book offers topical sections on computing and algorithms, logical methods, verification, program transformation and synthesis, semantics and types, processes and concurrency, UML specification, Petri nets, testing, software construction, data and knowledge bases, logic programming, constraint programming, program analysis, and language implementation.

The second instance of the international summer school on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering (GTTSE 2007) was held in Braga, Portugal, during July 2–7, 2007. This volume contains an augmented selection of the material presented at the school, including full tutorials, short tutorials, and contributions to the participants workshop. The GTTSE summer school series brings together PhD students, lecturers, technology presenters, as well as other researchers and practitioners who are interested in the generation and the transformation of programs, data, models, metamodels, documentation, and entire software systems. This concerns many areas of software engineering: software reverse and re-engineering, model-driven engineering, automated software engineering, generic language technology, to name a few. These areas di?er with regard to the speci?c sorts of metamodels (or grammars, schemas, formats etc.) that underlie the involved artifacts, and with regard to the speci?c techniques that are employed for the generation and the transformation of the artifacts. The?rst instance of the school was held in 2005 and its proceedings appeared as volume 4143 in the LNCS series.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2001, held in Cambridge, MA, USA, in June 2001.The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision, and present state-of-the-art results in the area.