This EPTCS volume contains the proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems (QAPL 2019) held in Prague, Czech Republic, on Sunday 7 April 2019. QAPL 2019 was a satellite event of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2019). QAPL focuses on quantitative aspects of computations, which may refer to the use of physical quantities (time, bandwidth, etc.) as well as mathematical quantities (e.g., probabilities) for the characterisation of the behaviour and for determining the properties of systems. Such quantities play a central role in defining both the model of systems (architecture, language design, semantics) and the methodologies and tools for the analysis and verification of system properties. The aim of the QAPL workshop series is to discuss the explicit use of time and probability and general quantities either directly in the model or as a tool for the analysis or synthesis of systems. The 16th edition of QAPL also focuses on discussing the developments, challenges and results in this area covered by our workshop in its nearly 20-year history.
翻译:该卷载有2019年4月7日星期日在捷克共和国布拉格举行的第16次编程语言和系统数量问题讲习班(QAPL 2019)的记录。QAPL 2019是欧洲软件理论和实践问题联席会议(ETAPS 2019)的一个卫星活动。QAPL侧重于计算的数量问题,可直接在模型中或作为系统分析或合成工具直接使用时间、概率和一般数量。QAPL第16版还侧重于讨论我们近20年历史讲习班所覆盖的这一领域的发展、挑战和结果。