ALGEBRAIC ENGINEERING - PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMIGROUPS AND ALGEBRAIC ENG AND WORKSHOP ON FOR

Algebraic engineering - algebra for understanding; hidden algebraic engineering; delay insensitivity and ternary simulation; dynamics and time - system time and system timing; the monoid and the band of a Petri Net; biological systems - complex adaptations and the structure of recombination spaces; complexity, logic and geometry - geometric semigroup theory; tilings and codes - a change-of-co-ordinates from geometry to algebra, applied to brick tilings; introduction to bicodes; automata, decompositions and computation - parallel computation - the join of pseudovarieties; software systems - parallel symbolic simulation using the algebraic programming system; a conceptual view on updates of object bases; semigroup and monoid pseudovarieties - conditional equations for pseudovarieties; type-I subsemigroups, revisited; power semigroups - results and problems; semigroups and algebra - normal forms of hypersubstitutions; words, languages and grammars - shuffle products and related operations on languages; the equational properties of reversal. (Part contents)