Computer Aided Systems Theory Eurocast 2003

Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST 2003

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2003, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain in February 2003. The 60 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on complex systems tools and applications, logic and formal tools, social and intelligent systems, distributed computing, autonomous and control systems, computational methods in bioinformatics, natural and artificial neural networks, neuroinformatics and neuroimaging, and image processing.

Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST 2003

Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2005

The concept of CAST, computer aided systems Theory, was introduced by F. Pichler of Linz in the late 1980s to include those computer theoretical and practical developments used as tools to solve problems in system science. It was considered as the third component (the other two being CAD and CAM) that would provide for a complete picture of the path from computer and systems sciences to practical developments in science and engineering. The University of Linz organized the first CAST workshop in April 1988, which demonstrated the acceptance of the concepts by the scientific and technical community. Next, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria joined the University of Linz to organize the first international meeting on CAST (Las Palmas February 1989), under the name EUROCAST 1989, a very successful gathering of systems theorists, computer scientists and engineers from most European countries, North America and Japan. It was agreed that EUROCAST international conferences would be organized every two years. Thus, the following EUROCAST meetings took place in Krems (1991), Las Palmas (1993), Innsbruck (1995), Las Palmas (1997), Vienna (1999), Las Palmas (2001) and Las Palmas (2003) in addition to an extra-European CAST conference in Ottawa in 1994. Selected papers from those meetings were published as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science vols. 410, 585, 763, 1030, 1333, 1728, 2178 and 2809 and in several special issues of Cybernetics and Systems: an lnternational Journal.