Cooperation and autonomy are two antagonistic core variables of agent-based systems, and a key challenge in designing such systems is to balance these variables appropriately. Thi...
This paper discusses a model-based design flow for requirements in distributed embedded software development. Such requirements are specified using a language similar to Linear T...
Luciano Lavagno, Marco Di Natale, Alberto Ferrari,...
The specification and monitoring of conditional obligations and prohibitions with starting points and deadlines is a crucial aspect in the design of open interaction systems. In th...
A real-time database is composed of real-time objects whose values remain valid only within their validity intervals. Each object in the database models a real world entity. The f...
Abstract. In this paper, we constructed the Distributed Object Group Framework(DOGF) which is a reconfigurable architecture supporting dynamically adaptation of distributed service...