Description
Thealgebraicapproachtosystemspeci?cationanddevelopment,borninthe early1970sasaformalmethodforabstractdatatypes,encompassestoday,atthe beginningofthethirdmillennium,theformaldesignofintegratedhardwareand softwaresystems,newspeci?cationframeworksandprogrammingparadigms, andawiderangeofapplicationareas. TheworkshopsonAlgebraicDevelopment Techniques,initiatedin1982astheworkshoponAbstractDataTypes,area prominentforumtopresentanddiscusscurrentresearchinthatarea. The15thInternationalWorkshoponAlgebraicDevelopmentTechniques (WADT2001)tookplaceinGenova,asasatelliteofETAPS2001,onApril 1–3,2001,andwasorganizedbyMauraCerioliandGiannaReggio. From1991to1995WADTworkshopswereheldjointlywiththeGeneral WorkshopoftheESPRITBasicResearchWorkingGroupCOMPASS. Following thistradition,theWADT2001washeldjointlywiththeGeneralWorkshopof theESPRITWorkingGroupCoFI. TheCommonFrameworkInitiative,started in1995andfundedsince1998asCoFIWG,iscenteredaroundthede?nitionof theCommonAlgebraicSpeci?cationLanguage(CASL).