Abstract. Guidelines and consistency rules of UML are used to control the degrees of freedom provided by the language to prevent faults. Guidelines are used in specific domains (e...
We introduce the ISM approach, a framework for modeling and verifying reactive systems in a formal, even machine-checked, way. The framework has been developed for applications in ...
Systems of autonomous agents providing automated services over the Web are fast becoming a reality. Often these agent systems are constructed using procedural architectures that pr...
Few formal verification techniques are currently available for asynchronous designs. In this paper, we describe a new approach for the formal verification of asynchronous architec...
Query answers from on-line databases can easily be corrupted by hackers or malicious database publishers. Thus it is important to provide mechanisms which allow clients to trust th...
Charles U. Martel, Glen Nuckolls, Premkumar T. Dev...