A major challenge for modern software systems is to become more cost-effective, while being versatile, flexible, resilient, energy-efficient, customizable, and configurable when reacting to run-time changes that may occur within the system itself, its environment or requirements. One of the most promising approaches to achieving such properties is to equip the software system with self-adaptation capabilities. Despite recent advances in this area, one key aspect that remains to be tackled in depth is the provision of assurances. Originating from a Dagstuhl seminar held in December 2013, this book constitutes the third volume in the series "Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems", and looks specifically into the provision of assurances. Opening with an overview chapter on Research Challenges, the book presents 13 further chapters written and carefully reviewed by internationally leading researchers in the field. The book is divided into topical sections on research challenges, evaluation, integration and coordination, and reference architectures and platforms.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Graph Transformations, ICGT 2014, held in York, UK, in July 2014. The 17 papers and 1 invited paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on verification, meta-modelling and model transformations, rewriting and applications in biology, graph languages and graph transformation, and applications.

Although the self-adaptability of systems has been studied in a wide range of disciplines, from biology to robotics, only recently has the software engineering community recognized its key role in enabling the development of self-adaptive systems that are able to adapt to internal faults, changing requirements, and evolving environments. The 15 carefully reviewed papers included in this state-of-the-art survey were presented at the International Seminar on "Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems," held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in October 2010. Continuing the course of the first book of the series on "Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems" the collection of papers in this second volume comprises a research roadmap accompanied by four elaborating working group papers. Next there are two parts - with three papers each - entitled "Requirements and Policies" and "Design Issues"; part four of the book contains four papers covering a wide range of "Applications."

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems, FMOODS 2012, and the 32nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems, FORTE 2012, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 2012, as one of the DisCoTec 2012 events. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics combining theory and practice in application areas of telecommunication services, Internet, embedded and real-time systems, networking and communication security and reliability, sensor networks, service-oriented architecture, and Web services.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of 10 internationl workshops and 2 symposia held as satellite events of the 10th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, MoDELS 2007, in Nashville, TN, USA, in September/October 2007 (see LNCS 4735).

The 29 revised full papers were carefully selected for inclusion in the book and are presented along with a doctoral and an educators' symposium section. The papers are organized in topical sections representing the various workshops: aspect-oriented modeling (AOM 2007), language engineering (ATEM2007), model driven development of advanced user interfaces (MDDAUI 2007), model size metrics (MSM 2007), model-based design of trustworthy health information systems (MOTHIS 2007), model-driven engineering, verification and validation (MoDeVVa 2007), modelling systems with OCL (Ocl4All 2007), [email protected], multi-paradigm modeling: concepts and tools (MPM 2007), quality in modeling, doctoral symposium, and educators' symposium.