Proceedings Eighth Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages

TL;DR

The proceedings of QAPL 2010 focus on the role of quantitative measures like time, probability, and resources in modeling, analyzing, and verifying system behaviors in computer science.

Contribution

This volume compiles research on how quantitative aspects are integrated into system models and analysis methods, emphasizing their importance in system verification.

Findings

Quantitative measures are central to system modeling and verification.

Explicit use of time and probabilities enhances system analysis.

Quantitative approaches improve understanding of system reliability and security.

Abstract

This volume contains the proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages (QAPL 2010), held in Paphos, Cyprus, on March 27-28, 2010. QAPL 2010 is a satellite event of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2010). The workshop theme is on quantitative aspects of computation. These aspects are related to the use of physical quantities (storage space, time, bandwidth, etc.) as well as mathematical quantities (e.g. probability and measures for reliability, security and trust), and play an important (sometimes essential) role in characterising the behavior and determining the properties of systems. Such quantities are central to the definition of both the model of systems (architecture, language design, semantics) and the methodologies and tools for the analysis and verification of the systems properties. The aim of this workshop is to discuss the explicit use of quantitative information such as time and probabilities either directly in the model or as a tool for the analysis of systems.