Annual Conference: Communicating Process Architectures
Communicating Process Architectures 2018,
the 40th. WoTUG conference on concurrent and parallel systems, takes place from
Sunday August 19th. to Wednesday August 22nd. 2018 and is hosted by
Professor Dr. Rainer Spallek,
Chair of
VLSI Design, Diagnostics and Architecture
at the Faculty of Computer Science,
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
The conference is organised by Dr. Spallek in collboration with Oliver Knodel and Uwe Mielke
and in partnership with WoTUG.
About WoTUG
WoTUG provides a forum for the discussion and promotion of concurrency ideas,
tools and products in computer science.
It organises specialist workshops and annual conferences that address
key concurrency issues at all levels of software and hardware granularity.
WoTUG aims to progress the leading state of the art in:
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theory (programming models, process algebra, semantics, ...);
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practice (multicore processors and run-times, clusters, clouds, libraries, languages, verification, model checking, ...);
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education (at school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, ...);
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applications (complex systems, modelling, supercomputing, embedded systems, robotics, games, e-commerce, ...);
and to stimulate discussion and ideas on the roles concurrency will play in the future:
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for the next generation of scalable computer infrastructure (hard and soft) and application,
where scaling means the ability to ramp up functionality (stay in control as complexity increases)
as well as physical metrics (such as absolute performance and response times);
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for system integrity (dependability, security, safety, liveness, ...);
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for making things simple.
Of course, neither of the above sets of bullets are exclusive.
WoTUG publications
A database of papers and presentations from WoTUG conferences is here.
The Abstract below has been randomly selected from this database.
How to Soar with CSP
By Colin O'Halloran
In this talk, I shall discuss work on the necessary technology
required for flight clearance of Autonomous Aircraft employing
Agents by reducing the certification problem to small verifiable
steps that can be carried out by a machine. The certification of
such Agents falls into two parts: the validation of the safety of
the Agent; and the verification of the implementation of the agent.
The work focuses on the Soar agent language and the main results are:
- a language subset for Soar, designed for formal analysis;
- a formal model of the Soar subset written in CSP;
- a prototype translator "Soar2Csp" from Soar to the CSP model;
- a framework for static analysis of Soar agents through model
checking using FDR2;
- the identification of "healthiness conditions" required of any
Soar Agent;
- a verifiable implementation of the CSP based Soar agents on an
FPGA.
Complete record...
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