A Time Action Lock is a state of a Real-time system at which neither time can progress nor an action can occur. Time Action Locks are often seen as signs of errors in the model or ...
We present an approach to assist the smart environment design process by means of automated validation of work-in-progress designs. The approach facilitates validation of not only ...
Software patterns are generic solutions to recurring problems. They are represented as a triplet (problem, context, solution). Several kinds of software patterns were identified, ...
Practical reasoning (PR), as advocated by philosophers is concerned by reasoning about what agents should do. It follows mainly two steps. A deliberation one for identifying the g...
Software architectures shift the focus of developers from lines-of-code to coarser-grained elements and their interconnection structure. Architecture description languages (ADLs) ...