In this position paper, we explain our approach for collaborative systems development based on a model of cooperative applications and a formalism called ORCHESTRA allowing to exp...
Perhaps the most successful agent architectures, and certainly the best known, are those based on the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) framework. Despite the wealth of research that ...
One of the challenges in designing distributed, embedded systems is the paucity of formal, executable specification notations that provide support for both real-time and asynchron...
The Object Constraint Language (OCL) is part of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to specify restrictions on values of a given UML model. As part of the UML 2.0 standardization ...
Most hardware description languages do not enforce determinacy, meaning that they may yield races. Race conditions pose a problem for the implementation, verification, and validat...
Patrick Schaumont, Sandeep K. Shukla, Ingrid Verba...