HANDS is a new programming system for children that was designed for usability. This paper examines the effectiveness of three features of HANDS: queries, aggregate operations, an...
We consider the problem of maximizing the reliability of a series-parallel system given cost and weight constraints on the system. The number of components in each subsystem and th...
Behavioural models offer the ability to simulate autonomous agents like organisms and living beings. Psychological studies have showed that the human behaviour can be described by...
This paper presents a language dedicated to the description of the software architecture of complex embedded control systems. The language relies on the synchronous approach but e...
: Systems are written in systems implementation languages. What characterizes such languages in the mid-1990’s? This paper identifies the typical environment that a system is bei...