Ebook: Computer Aided Systems Theory — EUROCAST 2001: A Selection of Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Computer Aided Systems Theory Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 19–23, 2001 Revised Papers
- Genre: Computers
- Tags: Simulation and Modeling, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD CAE) and Design, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Processor Architectures, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages
- Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2178
- Year: 2001
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- City: Berlin; New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The concept of CAST as Computer Aided Systems Theory, was introduced by F. Pichler in the late 1980s to include those computer theoretical and practical developments as tools to solve problems in System Science. It was considered as the third component (the other two being CAD and CAM) necessary to build the path from Computer and Systems Sciences to practical developments in Science and Engineering. The University of Linz organized the first CAST workshop in April 1988, which demonstrated the acceptance of the concepts by the scientific and technical community. Next, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria joined the University of Linz to organize the first international meeting on CAST, (Las Palmas, February 1989), under the name EUROCAST’89. This was a very successful gathering of systems theorists, computer scientists, and engineers from most European countries, North America, and Japan. It was agreed that EUROCAST international conferences would be organized every two years, alternating between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a continental European location. Thus, successive EUROCAST meetings have taken place in Krems (1991), Las Palmas (1993), Innsbruck (1995), Las Palmas (1997), and Vienna (1999), in addition to an extra-European CAST Conference in Ottawa in 1994.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2001, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain in February 2001. The 48 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The book offers topical sections on computer aided systems theory, mathematical and logical formalisms, information and decision, complexity, neural-like computation, automation and control, computer algebra and automated theorem proving, and functional programming and lambda calculus.