1 2 3 In many real component-based systems and patterns of component interaction, there can be identified a stable part (like control component, server, instance handler) and a nu...
We develop a formal system dealing `spatially' with certain aspects of uniformity and control during knowledge acquisition. To this end, we study an appropriate modality, whi...
Goals are used to define the behavior of (pro-active) agents. It is our view that the goals of an agent can be seen as a knowledge base of the situations that it wants to achieve. ...
Few formal verification techniques are currently available for asynchronous designs. In this paper, we describe a new approach for the formal verification of asynchronous architec...
Verification of partially synchronous distributed systems is difficult because of inherent concurrency and the potentially large state space of the channels. This paper identifies ...