Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST 2001: A Selection of Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Las Palmas [Paperback]

The concept of CAST as Computer Aided Systems Theory, was introduced by F. Pichler in the late 1980s to include those computer theoretical and practical developments as tools to solve problems in System Science. It was considered as the third component (the other two being CAD and CAM) necessary to build the path from Computer and Systems Sciences to practical developments in Science and Engineering. The University of Linz organized the first CAST workshop in April 1988, which demonstrated the acceptance of the concepts by the scientific and technical community. Next, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria joined the University of Linz to organize the first international meeting on CAST, (Las Palmas, February 1989), under the name EUROCAST89. This was a very successful gathering of systems theorists, computer scientists, and engineers from most European countries, North America, and Japan. It was agreed that EUROCAST international conferences would be organized every two years, alternating between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a continental European location. Thus, successive EUROCAST meetings have taken place in Krems (1991), Las Palmas (1993), Innsbruck (1995), Las Palmas (1997), and Vienna (1999), in addition to an extra-European CAST Conference in Ottawa in 1994.Invited Lectures.- Gr?bner Bases: A Short Introduction for Systems Theorists.- Design for Reuse via Structuring Techniques for ASMs.- Computer Aided Systems Theory.- On CAST.FSM Computation of Hierarchical Multi-layer Networks of Automata.- A Holarchical Organized Design Assistant for Hierarchical Decompositions.- Conflict Management in an Intelligent Multiagent Robotics System Based on FSM Approach.- Computer-Aided Simulations of Gaussian Processes and Related Asymptotic Properties.- Hybrid Systems Properties  Classification and Relation to Computer Science.- Assertion-Based Analysis of Hybrid Systems with PVS.- Algebraic Description of Physical Systems.- Information Structure and Logical Desilã²