A natural trend in most of the engineering disciplines is the construction of systems from components. This has the potential to reduce costs and increase reliability, provided th...
This paper describes experiences in using an O.O. language (Java) in designing, prototyping and evaluating a CPU manager. QoS Animator facilitates the execution of object oriented...
This paper investigates an approach for statically preventing race conditions in an object-oriented language. The setting of this work is a variant of Gordon and Hankin’s concurr...
We present several interpretations of the behavior of P/T nets in terms of traces, event structures, and partial orders. Starting from results of Hoogers, Kleijn and Thiagarajan, w...
We report on a case study in the emergence of a lexicon in a group of autonomous distributed agents situated and grounded in an open environment. Because the agents are autonomous,...