Abstract. The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy, cooperation, and goal-oriented behavior. Mainstream object-ori...
This paper makes the idea of memory shadowing [5] applicable to symbolic ternary simulation. Memory shadowing, an extension of Burch and Dill's pipeline verification method [...
Current practice in the design of application software for high-performance embedded computing systems is characterized by long development times, lack of interoperability with ot...
A polymorphic function is parametric if its behavior does not depend on the type at which it is instantiated. Starting with Reynolds's work, the study of parametricity is typ...
This paper focuses on the development of a principled methodology for the dependability analysis of composite Web services. The first step of the methodology involves a UML represe...