Concurrency, Compositionality, and Correctness Essays in Honor of Wi

This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Willem-Paul de Roever, contains 19 detailed papers written by the friends and colleagues of the honoree, all eminent scientists in their own right. These are preceded by a detailed bibliography

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Dennis Dams Ulrich Hannemann Martin Steffen (Eds.)

Concurrency, Compositionality, and Correctness Essays in Honor of Willem-Paul de Roever

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Volume Editors Dennis Dams Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Ave. Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA E-mail: [email protected] Ulrich Hannemann University of Bremen Computer Science Department P.O. Box 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Martin Steffen University of Oslo Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Department of Computer Science P.O. Box 1080 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway E-mail: msteffen@ifi.uio.no The illustration appearing on the cover of this book is the work of Daniel Rozenberg (DADARA).

Library of Congress Control Number: 2009943840 CR Subject Classification (1998): F.3, F.1, F.4, D.2.4, D.2-3, I.2.2-4, D.1, C.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 1 – Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

Why would you read this preface? As we start thinking what to write here, we wonder who is going to read these words. From our perspective – that of writers addressing an audience of readers – you are most likely Willem-Paul de Roever. Willem: our main motivation in putting together this Festschrift is to honor you on the occasion of your ret