Table of contents : Model checking and boolean graphs....Pages 1-19 SIGNAL as a model for real-time and hybrid systems....Pages 20-38 Towards an adequate notion of observation....Pages 39-55 Proving safety of speculative load instructions at compile-time....Pages 56-72 Typed norms....Pages 73-92 Compositional refinements in multiple blackboard systems....Pages 93-109 Fully persistent arrays for efficient incremental updates and voluminous reads....Pages 110-129 Back to direct style....Pages 130-150 Extraction of strong typing laws from action semantics definitions....Pages 151-166 Detecting determinate computations by bottom-up abstract interpretation....Pages 167-181 ELIOS-OBJ theorem proving in a specification language....Pages 182-199 Incremental garbage collection without tags....Pages 200-218 Approximate fixed points in abstract interpretation....Pages 219-232 Dynamic typing....Pages 233-253 Automatic parallelization of lazy functional programs....Pages 254-268 Reversing abstract interpretations....Pages 269-286 A theory of qualified types....Pages 287-306 A semantics for multiprocessor systems....Pages 307-320 Interprocedural type propagation for object-oriented languages....Pages 321-340 Using the Centaur system for data-parallel SIMD programming: a case study....Pages 341-350 The tensor product in Wadler's analysis of lists....Pages 351-370 Basic superposition is complete....Pages 371-389 Observers for linear types....Pages 390-407 Type inference for partial types is decidable....Pages 408-417 A provably correct compiler generator....Pages 418-434 An adequate operational semantics of sharing in lazy evaluation....Pages 435-450 Modules for a model-oriented specification language: A proposal for metasoft....Pages 451-472 Typing references by effect inference....Pages 473-491