This book contains the thoroughly refereed technical papers presented in six workshops collocated with the International Conference on Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations, STAF 2017, held in Marburg, Germany, in July 2017. The 15 full and 22 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The events whose papers are included in this volume are: BigMDE 2017: 5th International Workshop on Scalable Model Driven Engineering GCM 2017: 8th International Workshop on Graph Computation Models GRAND 2017: 1st International Workshop on Grand Challenges in Modeling MORSE 2017: 4th International Workshop on Model-driven Robot Software Engineering OCL 2017: 17th International Workshop in OCL and Textual Modeling STAF Projects Showcase 2017: 3rd event dedicated to international and national project dissemination and cooperation

This book contains the thoroughly refereed technical papers presented in eight workshops collocated with the International Conference on Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations, STAF 2018, held in Toulouse, France, in June 2018. The 65 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. The events whose papers are included in this volume are: CoSim-CPS 2018: 2nd International Workshop on Formal Co-Simulation of Cyber-Physical Systems DataMod 2018: 7th International Symposium From Data to Models and Back FMIS 2018: 7th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Interactive Systems FOCLASA 2018: 16th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-adaptative Systems GCM 2018: 9th International Workshop on Graph Computation Models MDE@DeRun 2018: 1st International Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering for Design-Runtime Interaction in Complex Systems MSE 2018: 3rd International Workshop on Microservices: Science and Engineering SecureMDE 2018: 1st International Workshop on Security for and by Model-Driven Engineering

This book contains the thoroughly refereed technical papers presented in six workshops collocated with the International Conference on Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations, STAF 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in July 2016. The six workshops whose papers are included in this volume are: DataMod, GCM, HOFM, MELO, SEMS, and VeryComp. The 33 full and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. They focus on practical and foundational advances in software technology covering a wide range of aspects including formal foundations of software technology, testing and formal analysis, graph transformations and model transformations, model driven engineering, and tools.

Agents are autonomous problem-solving software programs that are able to perform tasks in complex, dynamic environments, without receiving permanent guidance from the user. This is the first book on agents geared towards a wide audience of both agent developers and software developers. Written by the leading authorities in the field, the book introduces the technical foundations and reviews how agents are being -- and will be -- used on a daily basis.

When models of a system change, analyses based on them have to be reevaluated in order for the results to stay meaningful. In many cases, the time to get updated analysis results is critical. This thesis proposes multiple, combinable approaches and a new formalism based on category theory for implicitly incremental model analyses and transformations. The advantages of the implementation are validated using seven case studies, partially drawn from the Transformation Tool Contest (TTC).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on the Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FSTTCS 2007, held in New Delhi, India, in December 2007. The 40 revised full papers presented together with five invited papers were carefully reviewed. They provide original research results in fundamental aspects of computer science and reports from the frontline of software technology and theoretical computer science.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering, MEDI 2022, held in Cairo, Egypt, in November 2022. The 18 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers cover topics such as database systems, data stream analysis, knowledge-graphs, machine learning, model-driven engineering, image processing, diagnosis, natural language processing, optimization, and advanced applications such as the internet of things and healthcare.

2 chapter contains examples of intelligent agents, arranged according to their appli cation areas. Chapter 7 closes with a prospective view of the future development of intelligent agents. Everyone concerned with the Internet and the new possibilities of information and communication technology knows that nowadays there is no area that is devel oping faster. The authors are aware of the dynamics of this research area and its effects when they describe such a fast developing area in a slow, traditional me dium like a book. One thing is sure today: when the book appears on the market, new intelligent agents will already exist and some of the hypotheses made by this book will have been shown to be incorrect. Why, despite this, does it make sense to write a classical book on this subject? Is there an alternative? Experience shows that the majority of the people in business and public life who make decisions on the use of new technologies continue to prefer books and articles in periodicals rather than electronic sources such as the Internet. Or is there some other reason for the enormous success of Nicolas Negroponte's book Being Digital, which we thank for multimedia and many concepts of the digital and networked world, and even intelligent agents? Today, a book is still the only way to establish a new area.

The book provides a gentle introduction and definition of the denotational-based abstract interpretation method. The book demonstrates how the above method of formal analysis can be used, not only to address the security of systems, but other more general and interesting properties related to the testing, mutating and semantic ambiguity resolution of protocols. The book presents three case studies, all related to current complex protocols and standards used in industry, particularly in the context of IoT and Industry 4.0.

This volume gives the proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. These conferences are organized and run by the computer science research community in India, and their purpose is to provide a forum for professional interaction between members of this research community and their counterparts in different parts of the world. The volume includes four invited papers on: - reasoning about linear constraints using parametric queries, - the parallel evaluation of classes of circuits, - a theory of commonsense visual reasoning, - natural language processing, complexity theory and logic. The 26 submitted papers are organized into sections on logic, automata and formal languages, theory of programming, parallel algorithms, geometric algorithms, concurrency, distributed computing, and semantics.