Problem Frames are a systematic approach to the decomposition of problems that allows us to relate requirements, domain properties, and machine specifications. Having decomposed a...
Robin C. Laney, Leonor Barroca, Michael Jackson, B...
Early assessment of the non-functional properties of component compositions is one of the hottest issues in component-based architecting. We describe a method for evaluating the e...
Alexandre V. Fioukov, Evgeni M. Eskenazi, Dieter K...
Abstract. A concurrent Kleene algebra offers, next to choice and iteration, operators for sequential and concurrent composition, related by an inequational form of the exchange la...
Abstract. Coalgebras are categorical presentations of state-based systems. In investigating parallel composition of coalgebras (realizing concurrency), we observe that the same alg...
Though it is commonly agreed that the design of large database schemata requires group effort, database design from component subschemata has not been investigated thoroughly. In ...