Stepwise refinement is at the core of many approaches to synthesis and optimization of hardware and software systems. For instance, it can be used to build a synthesis approach for...
We describe work in progress on tools and infrastructure to support adaptive component-based software for mobile devices— in our case, Apple iPhones. Our high level aim is ‘de...
Malcolm Hall, Marek Bell, Alistair Morrison, Stuar...
Abstract. The Agent Modeling Language (AML) is a semi-formal visual modeling language, specified as an extension to UML 2.0. It is a consistent set of modeling constructs designed...
In this paper we study how the framework of Petri nets can be extended and applied to study recurrent events. We use possibility theory to realistically model temporal properties o...
The design, implementation, and testing of virtual environments is complicated by the concurrency and realtime features of these systems. Therefore, the development of formal meth...
Rajesh Mascarenhas, Dinkar Karumuri, Ugo A. Buy, R...