Component-based development has proven effective in many engineering domains, and several general component technologies are available. Most of these are focused on providing an e...
—One of the key challenges in modern real-time embedded systems is safe composition of different software components. Formal verification techniques provide the means for design...
Layered architectures are a proven principle for the design of software systems and components. The paper introduces a layered reference architecture for software agents which assi...
The paper introduces a method to model embedded dependability-critical systems as AND-composition of Guarded Statecharts which are special UMLstatecharts. With Guarded Statecharts...
Abstract. The success of high-level programming models in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is heavily dependent on factors such as ease of programming, code well-structuring, degree...