This Festschrift is published in honor of Kim Guldstrand Larsen, one of the earliest precursors of computer science in Denmark, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. During the last three decades, Kim Guldstrand Larsen has given major contributions across a remarkably wide range of topics, including real-time, concurrent, and probabilistic models of computation, logic in computer science, and model checking. Since 1995, he has been one of the prime movers behind the model checking tool for...

Bayesian Networks in R with Applications in Systems Biology is unique as it introduces the reader to the essential concepts in Bayesian network modeling and inference in conjunction with examples in the open-source statistical environment R. The level of sophistication is also gradually increased across the chapters with exercises and solutions for enhanced understanding for hands-on experimentation of the theory and concepts. The application focuses on systems biology wit...

Classical computer science textbooks tell us that some problems are 'hard'. Yet many areas, from machine learning and computer vision to theorem proving and software verification, have defined their own set of tools for effectively solving complex problems. Tractability provides an overview of these different techniques, and of the fundamental concepts and properties used to tame intractability. This book will help you understand what to do when facing a hard computational problem. Can the...

Most subfields of computer science have an interface layer via which applications communicate with the infrastructure, and this is key to their success (e.g., the Internet in networking, the relational model in databases, etc.). So far this interface layer has been missing in AI. First-order logic and probabilistic graphical models each have some of the necessary features, but a viable interface layer requires combining both. Markov logic is a powerful new language that accomplishes this b...

Markov decision process (MDP) models are widely used for modeling sequential decision-making problems that arise in engineering, economics, computer science, and the social sciences. Many real-world problems modeled by MDPs have huge state and/or action spaces, giving an opening to the curse of dimensionality and so making practical solution of the resulting models intractable. In other cases, the system of interest is too complex to allow explicit specification of some of the MDP model pa...

The two-book set LNCS 10205 + 10206 constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2017, which took place in Uppsala, Sweden in April 2017, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2017.The 48 full papers, 4 tool demonstration papers, and 12 software competition papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 181 s...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2016, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in November 2016. The 38 full papers and 11 short papers presented together with one abstract of an invited talk and one invited presentation were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. The broad topics of interest for FM include: interdisciplinary formal methods; formal methods in practice; tools for formal methods; role of formal methods ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools, and Applications, SETTA 2016, held in Beijing, China, in November 2016.The 17 full papers presented together with 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The aim of the symposium is to bring together international researchers and practitioners in the field of software technology. Its focus is on formal methods and...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, ATVA 2016, held in Chiba, Japan, in October 2016.The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: keynote; Markov models, chains, and decision processes; counter systems, automata; parallelism, concurrency; complexity, decidability; synthesis, refinement; optimi...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2016, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016.The 44 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 175 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: abstraction and verific...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, ATVA 2015, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2015.The 27 revised papers presented together with 6 tool papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. They show current research on theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, verification and synthesis by providing an international forum for interaction among ...

The two-volume set LNCS 10426 and LNCS 10427 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2017, held in Heidelberg, Germany, in July 2017.The total of 50 full and 7 short papers presented together with 5 keynotes and tutorials in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 191 submissions.The CAV conference series is dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-aided formal ...