Published in honor of the 65th birthday of Bernd Kramer, this book offers 11 contributions by close scientific companions on such topics as Petri nets and theoretical computer science, software and service engineering, cloud computing and e-learning.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 2011 ICSOC Workshops consisting of 5 scientific satellite events, organized in 4 tracks: workshop track (WESOA 2011; NFPSLAM-SOC 2011), PhD symposium track, demonstration track, and industry track; held in conjunction with the 2011 International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC), in Paphos, Greece, December 2011. The 39 revised papers presented together with 2 introductory descriptions address topics such as software engineering services; the management of service level agreements; Web services and service...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Foundations of Health Informatics Engineering and Systems, FHIES 2011, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August 2011. The 14 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on protocols for diagnosis and clinical trials; modeling workflows; model checking workflows and control systems; interoperability; formal modeling of organs and devices; and safety, security, and privacy of medical records.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems, SERENE 2012, held in Pisa, Italy, in September 2012. The 12 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers address all aspects of fault tolerance and exception handling, safety modeling, supporting evolution, resilience in service-oriented computing, and applying formal methods in case studies.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Brazililan Symposium on Programming Languages, SBLP 2012, held in Natal, Brazil, in September 2012. The 10 full and 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers cover various aspects of programming languages and software engineering.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2011, held in Haifa, Israel in December 2011. The 15 revised full papers presented together with 3 tool papers and 4 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on synthesis, formal verification, software quality, testing and coverage, experience and tools, and posters- student event.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2012, held in Kyoto, Japan, November 2012. The 31 revised full papers together with 3 invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers address all current issues in formal methods and their applications in software engineering. They are organized in topical sections on concurrency, applications of formal methods to new areas, quantity and probability, formal verification, modeling and development methodology, temporal logics,...

Constitutes the conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2012, held in Shanghai, China in November 2012.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS 2012, held in Kyoto, Japan, in December 2012. The 24 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on concurrency, security, static analysis, language design, dynamic analysis, complexity and semantics, and program logics and verification.