This Festschrift is published in honor of Edward A. Lee Robert S. Pepper Distinguished
Professor Emeritus and Professor in the Graduate School in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California Berkeley USA on the
occasion of his 60th birthday. The title of this Festschrift is Principles of Modeling because
Edward A. Lee has long been devoted to research that centers on the role of models in science
and engineering. He has been examining the use and limitations of models their formal
properties their role in cognition and interplay with creativity and their ability to
represent reality and physics. The Festschrift contains 29 papers that feature the broad range
of Edward A. Lee's research topics such as embedded systems real-time computing computer
architecture modeling and simulation and systems design.
