A Journey From Process Algebra Via Timed Automata To Model Learning

This Festschrift, dedicated to Frits W. Vaandrager on the occasion of his 60th birthday, contains papers written by many of his closest collaborators. Frits has been a Professor of Informatics for Technical Applications at Radboud University Nijmegen since 1995, where his research focuses on formal methods, concurrency theory, verification, model checking, and automata learning. The volume contains contributions of colleagues, Ph.D. students, and researchers with whom Frits has collaborated and inspired, reflecting a wide spectrum of scientific interests, and demonstrating successful work at the highest levels of both theory and practice.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Formal Methods and Software Engineering, ICFEM 2023, held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, during November 21–24, 2023. The 13 full papers presented together with 8 doctoral symposium papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions, the volume also contains one invited paper. The conference focuses on applying formal methods to practical applications and presents papers for research in all areas related to formal engineering methods.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Bridging the Gap between AI and Reality, AISoLA 2023, which took place in Crete, Greece, in October 2023. The papers included in this book focus on the following topics: The nature of AI-based systems; ethical, economic and legal implications of AI-systems in practice; ways to make controlled use of AI via the various kinds of formal methods-based validation techniques; dedicated applications scenarios which may allow certain levels of assistance; and education in times of deep learning.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 35th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2023, held in Bergamo, Italy, during September 18-20, 2023. The 13 full papers presented together with 6 short papers and one journal paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The conference focuses on Test Case Generation; Test Automation and Design; Model Based Testing; and AI and Smart Contracts Testing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Formal Aspects of Component Software, FACS 2023, which took place virtually during October 19-20, 2023. The 11 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: cloud computing, cyber-physical and critical systems, and the Internet of Things.

The Cooperative Neuron is part of a revolution that is occurring in the sciences of brain and mind. It explores the new field of cellular psychology, a field built upon the recent discovery that many neurons in the brain cooperate to seek agreement in deciding what's relevant in the current context. This cooperative context-sensitivity provides the cellular foundations for knowledge, doubt, imagination, self-development, and the search for purpose in life. This emerging field has far-reaching and fundamental implications for psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, neurology, and the philosophy of mind. In a clear and accessible style, the book explains the neuroscience to psychologists, the psychology to neuroscientists, and both to philosophers, students of the behavioral and brain sciences, and to anyone intrigued by the enduring mystery of how brains can be minds.