Specification, Algebra, and Software [electronic resource] : Essays Dedicated to Kokichi Futatsugi / edited by Shusaku Iida, José Meseguer, Kazuhiro Ogata.

Domain Endurants: An Analysis and Description Process Model -- On Formal Definition and Analysis of Formal Verification Processes -- CafeOBJ Traces -- Parchments for CafeOBJ Logics -- Incremental Proofs of Termination, Confluence and Sufficient Completeness of OBJ Specifications -- The Versatile Synchronous Observer -- Model Checking TLR* Guarantee Formulas on Infinite Systems -- Towards a Combination of CafeOBJ and PAT.-Negative Variables and the Essence of Object-Oriented Programming -- Reasoning (on) Service Component Ensembles in Rewriting Logic -- Dynamic Validation of Maude Prototypes of UML Models -- Inspecting Rewriting Logic Computations (in a Parametric and Stepwise Way) -- The Semantics of Datalog for the Evidential Tool Bus (Extended Abstract) -- Synthesis of Infinite-State Abstractions and Their Use for Software Validation -- Behavioral Rewrite Systems and Behavioral Productivity -- Functional Logic Programming in Maude -- Confluence: The Unifying, Expressive Power of Locality -- Foundations for Ensemble Modeling - The Helena Approach: Handling Massively Distributed Systems with ELaborate ENsemble Architectures -- Behaviour, Interaction and Dynamics -- Partially Ordered Knowledge Sharing and Fractionated Systems in the Context of other Models for Distributed Computing -- Extending Operation Semantics to Enhance the Applicability of Formal Refinement -- An Institution for Imperative RSL Specifications -- 8k-ary Grid Graph Models of Tabular Forms -- Everlasting Challenges with the OBJ Language Family -- Formal Modeling and Analysis of Google's Megastore in Real-Time Maude -- EHRA: Specification and Analysis of Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks -- Some Engineering Applications of the OTS/CafeOBJ Method -- Verifying the Design of Dynamic Software Updating in the OTS/CafeOBJ Method -- On Automation of OTS/CafeOBJ Method -- Mechanical Analysis of Reliable Communication in the Alternating Bit Protocol Using the Maude Invariant Analyzer Tool -- Theorem Proving Based on Proof Scores for Rewrite Theory Specifications of OTSs.