This Festschrift volume has been published in honor of Ed Brinksma on the occasion of his 60th
birthday. The contributions in this Festschrift are written by a number of Ed's former Ph.D.
students and collaborators. The papers are a reflection on his research contributions and
interests and all fall into the area of formal methods or in Ed's terminology applied
mathematics in computer science. The papers address modeling languages and semantics
model-based testing verification and performance analysis probabilistic computation system
dynamics and applications of formal methods.
