Perspectives of System Informatics

Algebraic Specifications.- The Common Framework Initiative for Algebraic Specification and Development of Software.- A Logical Approach to Specification of Hybrid Systems.- Specifications with States.- Algebraic Imperative Specifications.- Enhanced Control Flow Graphs in Montages.- Abstract State Machines for the Composition of Architectural Styles.- Partial Evaluation and Supercompilation.- The Essence of Program Transformation by Partial Evaluation and Driving.- Binding-Time Analysis in Partial Evaluation: One Size Does Not Fit All.- Abstraction-Based Partial Deduction for Solving Inverse Problems - A Transformational Approach to Software Verification.- Sonic Partial Deduction.- On Perfect Supercompilation.- Linear Time Self-Interpretation of the Pure Lambda Calculus.- An Optimal Algorithm for Purging Regular Schemes.- Polymorphism in OBJ-P.- Concurrency and Parallelism.- Formal Modelling of Services for Getting a Better Understanding of the Feature Interaction Problem.- Serializability Preserving Extensions of Concurrency Control Protocols.- Platform Independent Approach for Detecting Shared Memory Parallelism.- Hierarchical Cause-Effect Structures.- Some Decidability Results for Nested Petri Nets.- Abstract Structures for Communication between Processes.- Logic and Processes.- Applying Temporal Logic to Analysis of Behavior of Cooperating Logic Programs.- On Semantics and Correctness of Reactive Rule-Based Programs.- Compositional Verification of CCS Processes.- Compositional Style of Programming FPGAs.- Languages and Software.- Using Experiments to Build a Body of Knowledge.- Patterns in Words versus Patterns in Trees: A Brief Survey and New Results.- Extensions: A Technique for Structuring Functional-Logic Programs.- Language Tools and Programming Systems in Educational Informatics.- Database Programming.- Current Directions in Hyper-Programming.- Integration of Different Commit/Isolation Protocols in CSCW Systems with Shared Data.- A General Object-Oriented