This book discusses automated string-analysis techniques, focusing particularly on automata-based static string analysis. It covers the following topics: automata-bases string analysis, computing pre and post-conditions of basic string operations using automata, symbolic representation of automata, forward and backward string analysis using symbolic automata representation, constraint-based string analysis, string constraint solvers, relational string analysis, vulnerability detection usin...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction, MPC 2015, held in Königswinter, Germany, in June/July 2015. The 15 revised full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The papers are about mathematical methods and tools put to use in program construction. They range from algorithmics to support for program construction in programming languages and s...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2016, held in Coimbra, Portugal, in June/July 2016. IJCAR 2014 was a merger of three leading events in automated reasoning, namely CADE (International Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems) and TABLEAUX (International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods).The 26 ...

The use of constraints had its scientific and commercial breakthrough in the 1990s. Programming with constraints makes it possible to model and specify problems with uncertain, incomplete information and to solve combi natorial problems, as they are abundant in industry and commerce, such as scheduling, planning, transportation, resource allocation, layout, design, and analysis. This book is a short, concise, and complete presentation of constraint programming and reasoning, covering theor...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, RuleML+RR 2017, held in London, UK, during July 2017. This is the first conference of a new series, joining the efforts of two existing conference series, namely “RuleML” (International Web Rule Symposium) and “RR” (Web Reasoning and Rule Systems).The 16 regular papers presented together with 2 keynote abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions.The RR ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2015, held in Cali, Colombia, in October 2015.The 25 revised full papers presented together with 7 invited talks, 3 tool papers, and 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as algebra and category theory; automata and formal languages; concurrency; constraints, logic and semantic; softwar...

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in February 2016.The 17 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 initial submissions. The papers are organized in two sections: agents and artificial intelligence. They address open research trends and highlight in an innovative manner the trends in intelligent multi-agent systems,...

This book provides an introduction to logic and mathematical induction which are the basis of any deductive computational framework. A strong mathematical foundation of the logical engines available in modern proof assistants, such as the PVS verification system, is essential for computer scientists, mathematicians and engineers to increment their capabilities to provide formal proofs of theorems and to certify the robustness of software and hardware systems.The authors present a c...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2016, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in October 2016.The 23 revised full papers presented together with two short papers, two invited papers and one abstract of an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on program verification; design, synthesis and testing; calculi; specifications; comp...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR 2015, held in Siena, Italy, in July 2015.The 21 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR is open t...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications, ICTERI 2015, held in Lviv, Ukraine, in May 2015.The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions. The papers are grouped into two parts: ICT in education and industrial applications, and formal frameworks.

The two-volume set LNCS 9952 and LNCS 9953 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, ISoLA 2016, held in Imperial, Corfu, Greece, in October 2016.The papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. Featuring a track introduction to each section, the papers are organized in topical sections named: statistical model checking; ...