Abstract. Design by contract is a well known theory that views software construction as based on contracts between clients (callers) and suppliers (routines), relying on mutual obl...
—It is well known that requirements engineering plays a critical role in software quality. The use case approach is a requirements elicitation technique commonly used in industri...
Compared with texts, graphs are more intuitive to express comparative and structural information. Many graphical approaches, however, lack a formal basis for precise specification...
FACTOR/AIM (AIM) is a simulation system designed specifically for use in manufacturing decision support. AIM has been successfully applied to engineering design, scheduling, and p...
Current formal software engineering methodologies provide a vast array of languages for specifying correctness properties, as well as a wide assortment automated tools that aid in...