Large software systems are modularized in order to improve manageability. The parts of the software system communicate in order to achieve the desired functionality. To better und...
Daniel Oberle, Steffen Lamparter, Stephan Grimm, D...
SOFL is a formal language and method for system specification and design. As a language it is an integration of Petri nets, Data Flow Diagrams, and VDM-SL. As a method it is a com...
The UML is the de facto standard for system specification, but offers little specialized support for the specification and analysis of policies. This paper presents Deontic STAIRS,...
Dynamics are an important aspect of agent models. Control of dynamics requires specific methods of specification that have their own specific semantics. This paper addresses speci...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Tr...
In this paper we propose a high-level description of the behavior of digital systems. Behaviors are specified with a graphical synchronous model: “SyncCharts”. SyncCharts supp...