This paper formalizes three kinds of safety to be satisfied by networked appliances and services in the emerging home network system (HNS). The local safety is defined by safety ...
Ben Yan, Masahide Nakamura, Lydie du Bousquet, Ken...
In this paper, we describe the Architecture Description Language (ADL) that we are defining for the design of agentbased systems. This aims at filing the gap between the analysis ...
The Unified Modeling Language UML is well-suited for the design of real-time systems. In particular, the design of dynamic system behaviors is supported by interaction diagrams an...
Decision support systems are important in leveraging information present in data warehouses in businesses like banking, insurance, retail and health-care among many others. The mu...
Pervasive computing systems provide personalized and intimate services to improve users' quality of life by integrating computation and communication into the environments. Wi...