1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484216203321

Titolo

Pillars of Computer Science : Essays Dedicated to Boris (Boaz) Trakhtenbrot on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday / / edited by Arnon Avron, Nachum Dershowitz, Alexander Rabinovich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2008

ISBN

3-540-78127-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXI, 683 p.)

Collana

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 4800

Disciplina

004.0151

Soggetti

Computer science

Machine theory

Algorithms

Computer science—Mathematics

Artificial intelligence

Theory of Computation

Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Mathematics of Computing

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

From Logic to Theoretical Computer Science – An Update -- Reminiscences -- Boris A. Trakhtenbrot: Academic Genealogy and Publications -- Symmetric Logic of Proofs -- Synthesis of Monitors for Real-Time Analysis of Reactive Systems -- A Framework for Formalizing Set Theories Based on the Use of Static Set Terms -- Effective Finite-Valued Approximations of General Propositional Logics -- Model Transformation Languages and Their Implementation by Bootstrapping Method -- Modal Fixed-Point Logic and Changing Models -- Fields, Meadows and Abstract Data Types -- Why Sets? -- The Church-Turing Thesis over Arbitrary Domains -- Generalized Categorial Dependency Grammars -- Temporal Verification of Probabilistic Multi-Agent Systems -- Linear Recurrence Relations for Graph Polynomials -- Artin’s Conjecture and Size of Finite Probabilistic



Automata -- Introducing Reactive Kripke Semantics and Arc Accessibility -- On Partially Wellfounded Generic Ultrapowers -- Some Results on the Expressive Power and Complexity of LSCs -- Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces Are Complete for Traced Symmetric Monoidal Categories -- Tree Automata over Infinite Alphabets -- Connectives in Cumulative Logics -- Reasoning in Dynamic Logic about Program Termination -- The Grace of Quadratic Norms: Some Examples -- Nested Petri Nets for Adaptive Process Modeling -- Checking Temporal Properties of Discrete, Timed and Continuous Behaviors -- Token-Free Petri Nets -- Proof Search Tree and Cut Elimination -- Symbolic Verification Method for Definite Iterations over Tuples of Altered Data Structures and Its Application to Pointer Programs -- Categories of Elementary Sets over Algebras and Categories of Elementary Algebraic Knowledge -- Selection and Uniformization Problems in the Monadic Theory of Ordinals: A Survey -- The Scholten/Dijkstra Pebble Game Played Straightly, Distributedly, Online and Reversed -- The Reaction Algebra: A Formal Language for Event Correlation -- On Natural Non-dcpo Domains -- Church’s Problem and a Tour through Automata Theory -- From Monadic Logic to PSL.

Sommario/riassunto

For over half a century, Boris (Boaz) Trakhtenbrot has made seminal contributions to virtually all of the central areas of theoretical computer science. This festschrift volume readily illustrates the profound influence he has had on the field.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963432903321

Autore

Kan Shirley

Titolo

China and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missiles : policy issues / / Shirley A. Kan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2010

ISBN

1-61761-586-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (93 p.)

Collana

Weapons of mass destruction series

Disciplina

327.1/7450951

Soggetti

Nuclear weapons - China

Nuclear nonproliferation - Government policy - China

Weapons of mass destruction - China

Weapons of mass destruction - Government policy - China

China Military policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book, updated as warranted, discusses the security problem of China's role in weapons proliferation and issues related to the US policy response since the mid-1990s.