It is recognized in Ambient Intelligence that ambient devices should be modeled as intelligent autonomous components rather than passive information sources. The agent paradigm sui...
In this paper we provide a systematic formal interpretation for most elements of the UML notation. This interpretation, in a structured temporal logic, enables precise analysis of...
To guarantee the security of computer systems, it is necessary to define security permissions to restrict the access to the systems’ resources. These permissions rely on certai...
Formal analysis can be used to verify that a model of the system adheres to its requirements. As such, traditional formal analysis focuses on whether known (desired) system propert...
Considering the available body of literature on continuous EDAs, one must state that many important questions are still unanswered, e.g.: How do continuous EDAs really work, and h...