5 Sep 2011
Aachen, Germany
Third Annual Meeting of the ERCIM Working Group on Models and Logics for Quantitative Analysis (MLQA 2011) http://wiki.ercim.eu/wg/MLQA September 5th, 2011, Aachen, Germany Part of the International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2011) and the collocated events QEST 2011 and TGC 2011. *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** Continuous modeling and analysis techniques is currently quite a hot topic in the area of models and logics for quantitative analysis. Continuous domains are systematically and naturally used in the area of quantitative Process Algebras and Logics e.g. in the form of Time, or Probability, or random variable parameters (e.g. rates of exponential distributions). More recently, continuous domains have been used as approximations of typically discrete quantities which arise naturally when reasoning about (quantitative, e.g. stochastic) process algebras, like population sizes, i.e. the number of processes in a certain state at a certain point in time. Examples of such a use of continuous domains are PEPA ODE semantics, BioPEPA and can be found in the area of fluid/flow or mean-field analysis. In all these cases, discrete measures which vary over time are approximated by continuous functions (of time) which are often characterized as solutions of a set of differential equations. The aim of the MLQA workshop is to bring together experts in areas like process algebra, stochastic differential equations, fluid-flow techniques for process algebras, for queueing networks or Petri nets, stochastic hybrid systems, both from the theoretical foundations point of view and from that of the applications. ** *Chairs:* Jane Hillston <http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jeh/> Diego Latella <http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella> Flemming Nielson <http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~nielson/> MLQA (http://wiki.ercim.eu/wg/MLQA) is an ERCIM WG founded in 2009 and chaired by Prof. Flemming Nielson of DTU. We invite all interested researchers and PhD students to participate at MLQA 2011. Registration is via the CONCUR website: http://concur2011.rwth-aachen.de/registration