Jim Davies Knihy

Millennial Reflections in Computer Science is a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge issues within computing science written by some of the most pre-eminent scientists available today.To mark the retirement of Sir Tony Hoare from Oxford University, some of the world's leading computer scientists gathered together for a three-day symposium. Organised by the University of Oxford, and sponsored by Microsoft Research, the symposium resulted in this remarkable collection of talks, papers, and essays.Some describe original research, others offer personal perspectiveson the field. Together, they comprise a unique insight into the past, present, and future of computer science.

Focusing on the specification and verification of real-time systems, this book delves into the application of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP). It presents research findings that explore how CSP can be effectively utilized to ensure the reliability and correctness of systems that operate within strict timing constraints, making it a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in the field of computer science and systems engineering.

"For those on the home front, World War I was experienced primarily through words—yet people still wanted to see what the war was like. With photography still relatively new and complicated, and censorship limiting what could be shared, illustrators stepped into the breach. None produced work as remarkable as that of Fortunino Matania (1881–1963).  Blessed with a photographic memory, and able to work at great speed, Matanie created illustrations that were unnervingly photographic in their realism.This book presents the entire collection of Matania’s work from World War I for the first time. The works featured here are the result of regular trips to the Western Front as well as interviews with soldiers recovering in hospitals, where Matania would use toy soldiers to help him understand troop positions and movements. He would take that information back to his studio, where he had an enormous collection of uniforms, weapons, and other props to help make sure that every last detail of his finished picture was correct. The resulting images are an unmatched resource for understanding the war and how it was fought."

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2010, held in Natal, Brazil, in November 2010. The 18 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers presented cover a broad range of foundational and methodological issues in formal methods for the design and analysis of software and hardware systems as well as applications in various domains.

This collection explores various aspects of verifying temporal properties and formal specifications in system designs. It covers customer-friendly foundations for precise scenarios, automated verification of security policies in mobile code, and the slicing of concurrent real-time system specifications. The text delves into methodologies like Slotted-Circus and addresses challenges such as bug hunting with false negatives. It discusses deriving behavioral specifications from class models and the inheritance of laws for processes with states. Additionally, it presents probabilistic timed behavior trees and guides the correction of parameterized specifications. The work includes proving linearizability via non-atomic refinement and the verification of CSP-OZ-DC specifications with complex data types and timing parameters. It also models and verifies protocols like LMAC for wireless sensor networks and explores qualitative probabilistic modeling in Event-B. Other topics include smart card application verification using ASM, the verification of probabilistic properties in HOL, and the semantics of web services. The collection emphasizes integrated approaches, such as static analysis for Linux device driver verification and the unification of theories of objects, while also addressing the co-simulation of distributed embedded real-time control systems.

Formal engineering methods are changing the way that software systems are - veloped. Withlanguageandtoolsupport, theyarebeingusedforautomaticcode generation, and for the automatic abstraction and checking of implementations. In the future, they will be used at every stage of development: requirements, speci? cation, design, implementation, testing, and documentation. The ICFEM series of conferences aims to bring together those interested in the application of formal engineering methods to computer systems. Researchers and practitioners, from industry, academia, and government, are encouraged to attend, andtohelpadvancethestateoftheart. Authorsarestronglyencouraged to make their ideas as accessible as possible, and there is a clear emphasis upon work that promises to bring practical, tangible bene? t: reports of case studies should have a conceptual message, theory papers should have a clear link to application, and papers describing tools should have an account of results. ICFEM 2004 was the sixth conference in the series, and the ? rst to be held in North America. Previous conferences were held in Singapore, China, UK, A- tralia, and Japan. The Programme Committee received 110 papers and selected 30forpresentation. The? nalversionsofthosepapersareincludedhere, together with 2-page abstracts for the 5 accepted tutorials, and shorter abstracts for the 4 invited talks.

This guide to advertising from the 1920s to the present day includes special features on cartoons, World War II advertising, Guinness advertising campaigns, including the toucan and Pure Genius, and the Festival of Britain.

The first book on the science of imagination sheds light on the complex workings of our mind and the ways in which we can channel imagination for a better life.

Why do some things pass under the radar, while others capture our attention? From art to religion, sport to supersistion Riverted is a fascinating and accessible exploration of the scientific and evolutionary underpinnings of why we find things compelling.