: This paper outlines the emergence of formal techniques, explaining why they were slow to take on an industrially acceptable form. The contemporary scene, in which formal techniqu...
Interface automata provide a formalism capturing the high level interactions between software components. Checking compatibility, and other safety properties, in an automata-based ...
Michael Emmi, Dimitra Giannakopoulou, Corina S. Pa...
The complexity of embedded controllers is steadily increasing. This trend, stimulated by the continuous improvement of the computational power of hardware, demands for a correspond...
Marco Bozzano, Antonella Cavallo, Massimo Cifaldi,...
Designing and refining ontologies becomes a tedious task, once the boundary to real-world-size knowledge bases has been crossed. Hence semi-automatic methods supporting those task...
In this paper two formal dialectic systems are described, a persuasion protocol (PP0) and a negotiation protocol (NP0), together with a method for shifting from an instance of a pe...