4th International Workshop, FATES 2004, Linz, Austria, September 21, 2004, Revised Selected Papers
Testing often accounts for more than 50% of the required e?ort during system development.Thechallengeforresearchistoreducethesecostsbyprovidingnew methods for the speci?cation and generation of high-quality tests. Experience has shown that the use of formal methods in testing represents a very important means for improving the testing process. Formal methods allow for the analysis andinterpretationofmodelsinarigorousandprecisemathematicalmanner.The use of formal methods is not restricted to system models only. Test models may alsobeexamined.Analyzingsystemmodelsprovidesthepossibilityofgenerating complete test suites in a systematic and possibly automated manner whereas examining test models allows for the detection of design errors in test suites and their optimization with respect to readability or compilation and execution time. Due to the numerous possibilities for their application, formal methods have become more and more popular in recent years. The Formal Approaches in Software Testing (FATES) workshop series also bene?ts from the growing popularity of formal methods. After the workshops in Aalborg (Denmark, 2001), Brno (Czech Republic, 2002) and Montr ́ eal (Canada, 2003), FATES 2004 in Linz (Austria) was the fourth workshop of this series. Similar to the workshop in 2003, FATES 2004 was organized in a?liation with the IEEE/ACM Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2004). FATES 2004 received 41 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by at least three independent reviewers from the Program Committee with the help of some additional reviewers. Based on their evaluations, 14 full papers and one wo- in-progress paper from 11 di?erent countries were selected for presentation.
W calls a method of B, this composition unit is expressed as WB. Also, WW
stands for the composition that W calls a method of another W. In WW, W calling
another Wis expressed as Ws and W called by another W is expressed as Wd.
When B ...
7th International Conference, FASE 2004, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on the Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2004, Barcelona, Spain, March 29 - April 2, 2004 : Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2004, held in Barcelona, Spain, in March/April 2004. The 22 revised full papers and 4 tool presentation papers presented together with an invited paper and the abstract of another invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 98 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on objects and aspects, smart cards, components, security and web services, modeling and requirements, testing, and model checking and analysis.
For each method, there is a method graph describing its possible control flow.
Edges in the graphs denote method calls or internal computations. As explained
above, we distinguish between structural level properties, re- stricting possible ...
13th International Conference, FASE 2010, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, March 20-28, 2010, Proceedings
Includes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2010, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in March 2010, as part of ETAPS 2010, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software.
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A seminar in the CEC programme of coordination research on animal welfare, held on April 17–18, 1986, at the Pietersberg Conference Centre, Oosterbeek, The Netherlands
This book contains the contributions to a workshop on stress in farm animals held on April 17-18,1986 at the Pietersberg Con ference Centre Oosterbeek. The workshop was financed by the Commis sion of the European Communities from its budget for the coordina tion of Community Agricultural Research and the Agricultural Uni versity of Wageningen (The Netherlands). Its aim was to bring together experts from different disciplines all having in common that in one way or another they were involved in stress research. Such a multidisciplinary encounter should not only provide an interesting description of present day knowledge on stress, but also promote a more integrated view on stress phenomena as they occur in higher vertebrates. In the course of this workshop the following fields of research were related to stress: endocrinology, immunology, pathology, neurobiology, ethology and theoretical bio logy. Each of these relationships was introduce& by one speaker presenting a concise state of the art. The same relationship was elaborated by a second speaker implementing the available knowledge as far as possible to the farm animal situation. Therefore in this book each discipline is represented by a duo and introduced by some integrating remarks.
Fokkema (1985) raised the question as to whether behavioral and physiological
characteristics of the rats (i.e. active or passive coping strategies) represent a risk
factor for cardiovascular disease provided that the animals are exposed to ...
The common denominator of modern environmental governance is co-operation between public and private parties. Of course, co-operation is nothing new in itself. The novelty lies in its planned form. In co-operative environmental governance the parties commit themselves, through a more or less binding agreement, to resolve specific environmental difficulties. When co-operation is embedded in environmental policy, it becomes a means to achieve the environmental objectives of the state. The essays which make up this volume explore this new option in environmental governance: the nature of the approach, the preconditions and its chances of success. They take an interdisciplinary approach to the task, analyzing theoretical issues and practical experiences in a number of countries.
The consensus or 'self -steering model is not based on purposively directing the
actions of the parties involved but rather on the initiation and maintenance of a
continuous (societal) learning process. In analogy to operational processes of ...
This book is concerned with the general issues of ageing, learning and education for the elderly and then with the more specific issues of why, how and what elders want to learn. This monograph consists of 10 chapters written by various internationally renowned researchers and scholar-practitioners in the field.
This book provides a unique collection of chapters by authors who are committed
to supporting learning by elders internationally and in Hong Kong specifically. It
focuses on ageing and learning, describes why learning is so important ...
Second International Workshop, CIA'98, Paris, France, July 4-7, 1998, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cooperative Information Systems, CIA'98, held in cognition with Agents World in July 1998 in Paris. The book presents nine invited contributions together with 14 revised full papers selected from a total of 54 submissions. The book is divided in parts on systems and applications; issues of design, querying, and communication; rational cooperation and electronic commerce; adaptive and collaborative information gathering; and mobile information agents in the internet.
This concerns, e.g., the use of efficient techniques from machine learning,
evolutionary computing, and symbolic or numerical approaches for uncertain
reasoning. Moreover, commercial aspects of information gathering in the Internet
are ...
Data analysis, machine learning and knowledge discovery are research areas at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics and statistics. They cover general methods and techniques that can be applied to a vast set of applications such as web and text mining, marketing, medicine, bioinformatics and business intelligence. This volume contains the revised versions of selected papers in the field of data analysis, machine learning and knowledge discovery presented during the 36th annual conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl). The conference was held at the University of Hildesheim (Germany) in August 2012.
Metod potencialnych funkcij v teorii obucenia mashin (The method of potential
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European Conference, ECML PKDD 2010, Athens, Greece, September 5-9, 2011, Proceedings
This volume, the first in a three-volume set, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European conference on machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases held in Athens, Greece, in September 2011.
Barto, A.G., Sutton, R.S., Anderson, C.: Neuron-like elements that can solve
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European Conference, ECML PKDD 2009, Antwerp, Belgium, September 7-11, 2009 : Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the joint conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: ECML PKDD 2009, held in Bled, Slovenia, in September 2009. The 106 papers presented in two volumes, together with 5 invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 422 paper submissions. In addition to the regular papers the volume contains 14 abstracts of papers appearing in full version in the Machine Learning Journal and the Knowledge Discovery and Databases Journal of Springer. The conference intends to provide an international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results in all areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases. The topics addressed are application of machine learning and data mining methods to real-world problems, particularly exploratory research that describes novel learning and mining tasks and applications requiring non-standard techniques.
In the general (non-parameterized) case, or when the prior “decorrelates” the re-
ward in different states, we do not expect active learning to bring a significant
advantage. We are currently conducting further experiments to gain a clearer ...
