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...
Verification of system designs continues to be a major challenge today. Simulation remains the primary tool for making sure that implementations perform as they should. We present...
Xi Chen, Harry Hsieh, Felice Balarin, Yosinori Wat...
Many large software systems originate from untyped scripting language code. While good for initial development, the lack of static type annotations can impact code-quality and per...
Being a successful technique in software practice, Object Orientation (OO) is a hot topic in academic research fields. Among many formalisms, rCOS, a refinement calculus of obje...
Liang Zhao, Xiangpeng Zhao, Quan Long, Zongyan Qiu
Interaction protocols enable agents to communicate with each other effectively. Whereas several approaches exist to specify interaction protocols, none of them has design tools th...