Languages: From Formal to Natural Essays Dedicated to Nissim Francez on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Grumberg, Orna (Editor), Kaminski, Michael (Editor), Katz, Shmuel (Editor), Wintner, Shuly (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5533
• Subjects: Computer science.; Arithmetic and logic units, Computer.; Computers.; Computer logic.; Mathematical logic.; Computer Science.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.; Logics and Meanings of Programs.; Theory of Computation.; Arithmetic and Logic Structures.

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 theme of the symposium was Languages: From For...

Table of Contents:

• Languages: From Formal to Natural
• Modular Verification of Recursive Programs
• Semi-formal Evaluation of Conversational Characters
• Scope Dominance with Generalized Quantifiers
• Nonassociative Lambek Calculus with Additives and Context-Free Languages
• On Lazy Commutation
• Aspect Oriented Approach for Capturing and Verifying Distributed Properties
• No i-Sums for Nissim (and Shalom)
• The Power of Non-deterministic Reassignment in Infinite-Alphabet Pushdown Automata
• Modular Verification of Strongly Invasive Aspects
• Classes of Service under Perfect Competition and Technological Change
• On the Ontological Nature of Syntactic Categories in Categorial Grammar
• Masking Gateway for Enterprises
• No Syllogisms for the Numerical Syllogistic
• Formal Grammars of Early Language
• Hybrid BDD and All-SAT Method for Model Checking.