Languages: From Formal to Natural Essays Dedicated to Nissim Francez
This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Nissim Francez on the occasion of his 65th birthday, contains 15 papers, written by friends and colleagues, many of whom congregated at a celebratory symposium held on May 24-25, 2009, in Haifa, Israel. The t
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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 University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 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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Orna Grumberg Michael Kaminski Shmuel Katz Shuly Wintner (Eds.)
Languages: From Formal to Natural Essays Dedicated to Nissim Francez on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
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Volume Editors Orna Grumberg Michael Kaminski Shmuel Katz Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Department of Computer Science Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel E-mail: {orna,kaminski,katz}@cs.technion.ac.il Shuly Wintner University of Haifa Department of Computer Science Haifa 31905, Israel E-mail: [email protected] The illustration on the cover of this book is the Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Permission for reproduction has been obtained from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.
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Nissim Francez
Preface
The symposium “Languages: From Formal to Natural,” celebrating the 65th birthday of Nissim Francez, was held on May 24–25, 2009 at the Technion, Haifa. The symposium consisted of two parts, a verification day and a language day, and covered all areas of Nissim’s past and present research interests, areas which he has inspiringly influenced and to which he has contributed so
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