Perspectives of System Informatics

Semantics and laws of man-made infrastructure systems.- The language lola, FPGAs, and PLDs in teaching digital circuit design.- Calculating digital counters.- Generic programming.- Algebraic semantics of the Oberon target machine.- The making of Algol 68.- Artificial life and pollution control: Explorations of a genetic algorithm system on the highly parallel connection machine.- Application of subdefinite models for solving constraint satisfaction problems.- Problem solving in the object-oriented technological environment NeMo+.- What a universal semantic interlingua can and cannot do.- Understanding short texts with integration of knowledge representation methods.- Co-learning of recursive languages from positive data.- Automatic analysis, verification and synthesis of rule-based real-time decision making systems with machine learning assistance.- Processes in cause-effect structures.- On the power of recursion in dataflow Schemes.- Derivation of explicitly parallel code from declarative program by transformations.- Actors as a coordinating model of computation (extended abstract).- An associative version of the Prim-Dijkstra algorithm and its application to some graph problems.- Adding design strategies to fork algebras.- Supercompilation: Techniques and results.- Program transformation with metasystem transitions: Experiments with a supercompiler.- Fast binding-time analysis for multi-level specialization.- BTA Algorithms to ensure termination of off-line partial evaluation.- Polyvariant expansion and compiler generators.- The disjunctive constrained lambda calculus.- Efficient metaobject control using mediators.- Framework component systems: Concepts, design heuristics, and perspectives.- Prototype of a run-time actaptable, object-oriented system.- The tree equivalence problem for linear recursion schemes.- A mode analysis of logic programs by abstract interpretation.- A semantics-based determinacy analysis for prolog with cut.- Communicating functional agents and their application to graphical user interfaces.- The design of a functional GUI library using constructor classes.- Merging relational database technology with constraint technology.- On homeostatic behavior of dynamic deductive data bases.- On transformations into linear database logic programs.