When designing decentralised autonomic computing systems, a fundamental engineering issue is to assess systemwide behaviour. Such decentralised systems are characterised by the la...
Tom De Wolf, Giovanni Samaey, Tom Holvoet, Dirk Ro...
We present a calculus which can transfer specifications to objects for the development of real-time systems. The object model is based on a practical OO development technique--HRT...
Zhiqiang Chen, Antonio Cau, Hussein Zedan, Xiaodon...
Statecharts and Petri nets are two popular visual formalisms for modelling complex systems that exhibit concurrency. Both formalisms are supported by various design tools. To enabl...
A critical issuein the designof aprofessionalsoftware engineeringdegreeprogram is the way in which formal methods are integrated into the curriculum. The approach taken by most pr...
In this paper we consider how a BDI agent might determine its best course of action. We draw on previous work which has presented a model of persuasion over action and we discuss ...
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter Mc...