Symposium on Real-Time and Hybrid Systems: Essays Dedicated to Professor Chaochen Zhou on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

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This volume is published in honor of Professor Chaochen Zhou’s 80th birthday. The Festschrift contains 13 refereed papers by leading researchers who were among the participants of the celebratory conference in Changsha, China that took place in October 2017. The papers cover a broad spectrum of subjects related to Formal Methods for the development of computer systems. Topics include Probabilistic Programming, Concurrency, Quantum Computing, Domain Engineering, Real-time and Hybrid Systems, and Cloud Computing. Chaochen Zhou is internationally recognized for his own contributions and for the wide influence that he has had through his appointments in Oxford (UK) where he collaborated with Professor Tony Hoare, Lyngby (Denmark) where he worked with Professor Dines Bjørner, UNU-IIST (Macau) where he moved from being Principal Research Fellow to his appointed as Director of the Institute, as well as in Beijing. His book on the Duration Calculus (joint with Michael Hansen) made a seminal contribution to specifying and reasoning about real-time systems. Chaochen Zhou’s contributions have been marked by his election as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Front Matter ....Pages I-XII Think Sequential, Run Parallel (Wenfei Fan, Muyang Liu, Ruiqi Xu, Lei Hou, Dongze Li, Zizhong Meng)....Pages 1-25 Concurrency: Handling Interference Formally (Cliff B. Jones)....Pages 26-43 Decidability of the Initial-State Opacity of Real-Time Automata (Lingtai Wang, Naijun Zhan)....Pages 44-60 Domain Science and Engineering A Review of 10 Years Work and a Laudatio The ZCC Fest, 20 October 2017, Changsha, China (Dines Bjørner)....Pages 61-84 HAT: Analyzing Linear Hybrid Automata as Labelled Transition System (Lei Bu, Hui Jiang, Xin Chen, Enyi Tang, Xuandong Li)....Pages 85-104 Overview: System Architecture Virtual Integration based on an AADL Model (Yunwei Dong, Xiaomin Wei, Mingrui Xiao)....Pages 105-115 Characterization and Verification of Stuttering Equivalence (Xinxin Liu, Wenhui Zhang)....Pages 116-132 \(Q|SI\rangle \) : A Quantum Programming Environment (Shusen Liu, Xin Wang, Li Zhou, Ji Guan, Yinan Li, Yang He et al.)....Pages 133-164 The Demon, the Gambler, and the Engineer (Martin Fränzle, Paul Kröger)....Pages 165-185 Linking Theories of Probabilistic Programming (He Jifeng)....Pages 186-210 Space for Traffic Manoeuvres: An Overview (Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog)....Pages 211-230 Cloud Robotics: A Distributed Computing View (Wang Huaimin, Ding Bo, Jie Xu)....Pages 231-245 Analyzing Interrupt Handlers via Interprocedural Summaries (Xueguang Wu, Liqian Chen, Ji Wang)....Pages 246-262 Back Matter ....Pages 263-263