PASTA

6th Workshop on Process Algebra and Stochastically Timed Activities

Programme

Queen's Tower at Imperial College

Thursday 26th July 2007

1300–1400
Lunch
1400–1405
Welcome
1405–1430
Invited talk: Approximate Analysis of a Network of Fluid Queues
Peter Harrison, Imperial College London
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1430–1455
A comparison of the ODE semantics of PEPA with timed continuous Petri nets
Vashti Galpin, University of Edinburgh
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1455–1520
On ODEs from PEPA Models
Jie Ding, University of Edinburgh
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1520–1550
Tea/coffee break
1550–1615
Generating SDEs from PEPA models
Richard Hayden, Imperial College London
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1615–1640
Hybrid approximation of stochastic concurrent constraint programming
Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, Italy
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1640–1705
Everything you wanted to know about RCAT but were afraid to ask
Maria Vigliotti, Imperial College London
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1705–1715
Short break
1715–1740
From the PEPA reagent-centric view to Bio-PEPA
Federica Ciocchetta, University of Edinburgh
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1740–1805
Towards a Model of Fair and Unfair Semaphores in MoDeST
Jens Happe, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
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1805–1900
Mystery tour (you may want to bring a camera, or binoculars, as there is quite a view)
1930…
PASTA dinner at Jakob's.

Friday 27th July 2007

1000–1025
Service-Level Agreements for Service-Oriented Computing
Stephen Gilmore, University of Edinburgh
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1025–1050
Using PEPA to model the Epichord P2P overlay network
Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling
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1050–1120
Tea/coffee break
1120–1145
PEPA models of Epidemiology
Carron Shankland, University of Stirling
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1145–1215
Comparing three different simulation methods for solving chemical reaction systems
Luca Cacchiani, University of Torino, Italy / University of Edinburgh
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1215–1240
Stochastic Bounding of PEPA models
Michael Smith, University of Edinburgh
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1240–1330
Lunch
1330–1355
Bottom-Up Beats Top-Down Hands-Down
Mirco Tribastone, University of Edinburgh
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1355–1420
Probe Specifications to PEPA Components via Finite Automata
Allan Clark, University of Edinburgh
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1420–1445
A peer-to-peer Market for Grid Computing
Uli Harder, Imperial College London
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1445–1455
Wrap-up
1455…
To the pub, starting at the Queens Arms, and possibly crawling on…

An LCD projector and laptop will be available to presenters. Please bring a PDF file on a memory stick, or posted somewhere on the Web. If you use PowerPoint, or anything else we're unlikely to support properly, please convert your slides to PDF or bring your own laptop. If you have any questions, please contact Ashok.