Computer Aided Systems Theory - CAST '94

Systems Science and systems technology: From conceptual frameworks to applicable solutions.- Soft Computer-Aided System Theory and Technology (SCAST).- Fundamental systems concepts: "The right stuff" for 21st Century technology.- SYNERGY: The design of a systems engineering system, I.- The configuration of complex systems.- On the expressibility of discrete event specified systems.- An object-oriented architecture for possibilistic models.- Fuzzy expert system technology.- Deciding boundedness for systems of two linear communicating finite state machines.- A framework for knowledge intensive engineering.- Multiparadigm (knowledge-based and numerical) continuous simulation environments: Architectural issues.- A development methodology for systems engineering of computer-based systems and its environmental support.- An approach to the design of complex, heterogeneous hardware/software systems.- A strategy for realizing traceability in an Object-Oriented design environment.- Towardsa cast method for a systematic generation of non-orthogonal complete transformations.- Tuning fuzzy logic controllers by classical techniques.- Computer aided design of protocol converters.- Modelling, analysis and evaluation of systems architectures.- Systematic strategy for performance prediction in improvement of parallel programs.- Design and implementation of multimedia environment for simulation.- TurboBrain: A neural network with direct learning based on linear or Non-Linear Threshold Logics.- GENIAL: An evolutionary recurrent neural network designer and trainer.- DASE: An environment for system level telecommunication design exploration and modelling.- VOMDraw - A tool for visual object modeling.- A computer aided system for developing graphical telematic applications.- A simple approach to improve the abstraction level of object representation.- On the integration of CAST.FSM into the VLSI design process.- Using logic programming to test module specifications in early stages of

George J. Klir is currently Distinguished Professor of Systems Science at Binghamton University, SUNY. Since he immigrating to the U.S. in 1966, he has held positions at UCLA, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Binghamton University. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE, IFSA, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He has served as president of SGSR, IFSR, NAFIPS, and IFSA.