The Mondex Electronic Purse system [18] is an outstanding example of formal refinement techniques applied to a genuine industrial scale application, and notably, was the first ve...
Richard Banach, Michael Poppleton, Czeslaw Jeske, ...
We review a number of formal verification techniques supported by STeP, the Stanford Temporal Prover, describing how the tool can be used to verify properties of several versions o...
the extensibility and evolution of network services and protocols had become a major research issue in recent years. The 'programmable' and 'active' network par...
: The latest versions of AspectJ, the most popular aspect-oriented extension for Java, must cope with the complex changes that occurred in the Java type system, specially with thos...
Fernando Barden Rubbo, Rodrigo Machado, Alvaro Fre...
In this paper, we examine the composition of firstclass protocols for multi-agent systems. First-class protocols are protocols that exist as executable specifications that agent...