Invited papers delivered at ICPP 1994, which is the joint conference of the 10th Kiev International Conference on Plasma Theory and the 10th International Congress on Waves and Instabilities in Plasmas. In addition to summary talks and an opening colloquium on solar eclipses, subjects addressed incl

Annotation Invitations for the 30 conference papers were weighted toward young scientists and those from the former Soviet Union, eastern Europe, and developing countries. They discuss fundamental electron collision processes relevant to low-temperature plasmas, the formation and evolution of the cathode sheath on the streamer arrival, numerical and analytical kinetic and fluid models for RF discharges, corona physics and diagnostics, nonlinear surface waves in plasmas, and other topics. Also included is the 1995 Penning Prize winning lecture, UV/VUV High Sensitivity Spectroscopy for Diagnosing Lighting and Processing Plasmas and for Basic Data by J. E. Lawler, et al. Reproduced from typescripts. No subject index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

In modern distributed systems, such as the Internet of Things or cloud computing, verifying their correctness is an essential aspect. This requires modeling approaches that reflect the natural characteristics of such systems: the locality of their components, autonomy of their decisions, and their asynchronous communication. However, most of the available verifiers are unrealistic because one or more of these features are not reflected. Accordingly, in this book we present an original formalism: the Integrated Distributed Systems Model (IMDS), which defines a system as two sets (states and messages), and a relation of the "actions" between these sets. The server view and the traveling agent’s view of the system provide communication duality, while general temporal formulas for the IMDS allow automatic verification. The features that the model checks include: partial deadlock and partial termination, communication deadlock and resource deadlock. Automatic verification can support the rapid development of distributed systems. Further, on the basis of the IMDS, the Dedan tool for automatic verification of distributed systems has been developed.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2015, held in Cork, Ireland, in August/September 2015. This edition of the conference was part of George Boole 200, a celebration of the life and work of George Boole who was born in 1815 and worked at the University College of Cork. It was also co-located with the 31st International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2015). The 48 revised papers presented together with 3 invited talks and 16 abstract papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions. The scope of CP 2014 includes all aspects of computing with constraints, including theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision making, resource allocation, schedulling, configuration, and planning.