Perspectives of System Informatics [electronic resource] : Third International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference, PSI'99, Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia, July 6-9, 1999 Proceedings /

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 inEducational Informatics -- Database Programming -- Current Directions in Hyper-Programming -- Integration of Different Commit/Isolation Protocols in CSCW Systems with Shared Data -- A General Object-Oriented Model for Spatial Data -- Object-Oriented Programming -- Twin — A Design Pattern for Modeling Multiple Inheritance -- A Partial Semantics for Object Data Models with Static Binding -- Heterogeneous, Nested STL Containers in C++ -- Data Flow Analysis of Java Programs in the Presence of Exceptions -- Late Adaptation of Method Invocation Semantics -- Constraint Programming -- A Control Language for Designing Constraint Solvers -- An Algorithm to Compute Inner Approximations of Relations for Interval Constraints -- Constraint Programming Techniques for Solving Problems on Graphs -- Extensional Set Library for ECLiPSe -- Model & Program Checking -- Introducing Mutual Exclusion in Esterel -- Experiences with the Application of Symbolic Model Checking to the Analysis of Software Specifications -- Formal Verification of a Compiler Back-End Generic Checker Program -- Construction of Verified Compiler Front-Ends with Program-Checking -- Translating SA/RT Models to Synchronous Reactive Systems: An Approximation to Modular Verification Using the SMV Model Checker -- Multi-agent Optimal Path Planning for Mobile Robots in Environment with Obstacles -- Multi-agent Optimal Path Planning for Mobile Robots in Environment with Obstacles -- Approach to Understanding Weather Forecast Telegrams with Agent-Based Technique -- Approach to Understanding Weather Forecast Telegrams with Agent-Based Technique -- Natural Communication with Robots -- Approach to Development of a System for Speech Interaction with an Intelligent Robot -- Analysis of Sign Languages: A Step Towards Multi-lingual Machine Translation for SignLanguages -- Analysis of Sign Languages: A Step Towards Multi-lingual Machine Translation for Sign Languages.