Preface Volume 52, Issue 1

AbstractThis volume contains the Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency (EXPRESS'01). The Workshop was held in Aalborg, Denmark on August 20, 2001, as satellite event to CONCUR 2001.The EXPRESS workshops aim at bringing together researchers interested in the relations between various formal systems, particularly in the field of Concurrency. More specifically, they focus on the comparison between programming concepts (such as concurrent, functional, imperative, logic and object-oriented programming) and between mathematical models of computation (such as process algebras, Petri nets, event structures, modal logics, rewrite systems etc.) on the basis of their relative expressive power.The EXPRESS workshops were originally held as meetings of the HCM project EXPRESS, which was active with the same focus from January 1994 till December 1997. The first three workshops were held respectively in Amsterdam (1994, chaired by Frits Vaandrager), Tarquinia (1995, chaired by Rocco De Nicola), and Dagstuhl (1996, co-chaired by Ursula Goltz and Rocco De Nicola). The workshop in 1997, which took place in Santa Margherita Ligure and was co-chaired by Catuscia Palamidessi and Joachim Parrow, was organized as a conference with a call for papers and a significant attendance from outside the project. The 1998 workshop was held as a satellite workshop of the CONCUR'98 conference in Nice, co-chaired by Ilaria Castellani and Catuscia Palamidessi, and like on that occasion EXPRESS'99 was hosted by the CONCUR'99 conference in Eindhoven, co-chaired by Ilaria Castellani and Björn Victor. The EXPRESS'00 workshop was again held as a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2000, Pennsylvania State University, USA, co-chaired by Luca Aceto and Björn Victor.The papers in this volume were reviewed by the program committee consisting, besides the editors, of Franck van Breugel(Department of Computer Science, York University)Ilaria Castellani(INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis)Rance Cleaveland(Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook)Philippa Gardner(Department of Computing, Imperial College)Jan Friso Groote(Department of Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology)Faron Moller(Department of Computer Science, University of Wales Swansea)Joachim Parrow(KTH Teleinformatik, Royal Institute of Technology)Julian Rathke(School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex)Roberto Segala(Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Verona)This volume will be published as volume 52 in the series Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). This series is published electronically through the facilities of Elsevier Science B.V. and its auspices. The volumes in the ENTCS series can be accessed at the URL http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/entcsWe are very grateful to the following persons, whose help has been crucial for the success of EXPRESS'01: Hans Hüttel and Anna Ingólfsdóttir for their help with the organization of the Workshop as satellite event of CONCUR 2001; Mike Mislove, one of the Managing Editors of the ENTCS series, for his assistance with the use of the ENTCS style files; Uffe Engberg for his great help in the production of the preliminary version of these Proceedings for distribution at the Workshop. Thanks are also due to BRICS (Basic Research in Computer Science), a centre of the Danish National Research Foundation, which has supplied financial support to cover the printing costs.December 20, 2001Luca Aceto and Prakash Panangade