Semantics and Algebraic Specification: Essays Dedicated to Peter D. Mosses on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Paperback, 2009)

Tribute to Peter Mosses.- Action Semantics in Retrospect.- Component-Based Security Policy Design with Colored Petri Nets.- Order-Sorted Parameterization and Induction.- An Implementation of Object-Oriented Action Semantics in Maude.- A Constructive Semantics for Basic Aspect Constructs.- Structural Operational Semantics for Weighted Transition Systems.- On the Specification and Verification of Model Transformations.- Towards Compatible and Interderivable Semantic Specifications for the Scheme Programming Language, Part I: Denotational Semantics, Natural Semantics, and Abstract Machines.- Towards Compatible and Interderivable Semantic Specifications for the Scheme Programming Language, Part II: Reduction Semantics and Abstract Machines.- Type Checking Evolving Languages with MSOS.- Action Algebras and Model Algebras in Denotational Semantics.- Mobile Processes and Termination.- An Action Semantics Based on Two Combinators.- Converting between Combinatory Reduction Systems and Big Step Semantics.- Model-Based Testing and the UML Testing Profile.- A Complete, Co-inductive Syntactic Theory of Sequential Control and State.- Vertical Object Layout and Compression for Fixed Heaps.