Formal Methods for the Quantitative Evaluation of Collective Adaptive Systems

This book presents 8 tutorial lectures given by leading researchers at the 16th edition of the International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication and Software Systems, SFM 2016, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in June 2016.
SFM 2016 was devoted to the Quantitative Evaluation of Collective Adaptive Systems and covered topics such as self-organization in distributed systems, scalable quantitative analysis, spatio-temporal models, and aggregate programming.

Autorentext

Lecturers of the SFM International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication, and Software Systems

Inhalt

Formal Specification and Analysis of Robust Adaptive Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems.- Dependability of Adaptable and Evolvable Distributed Systems.- Mean-Field Limits Beyond Ordinary Differential Equations.- Modelling and Analysis of Collective Adaptive Systems with CARMA and its Tools.- Spatial Representations and Analysis Techniques.- Spatial Logic and Spatial Model Checking for Closure Spaces.- Quantitative Abstractions for Collective Adaptive Systems.- Aggregate Programming: From Foundations to Applications.