We survey formal methods as they are applied to the development of communication services. We report on industrial and academic projects, consider di erent communication architect...
Abstract: A key idea of architecture is the description of components and their connections. This information can be extended to define the horizontal and vertical distribution of...
: Swiss Re has established an architectural framework, tools, and concepts that enable business people to specify their view of the business in a consistent and formal manner. Base...
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...
Software process improvement requires high level formalisms for describing project-specific, organizational and quality aspects. These formalisms must be convenient not only for ...