Two main issues need to be covered when dealing with the dependability of component-based systems: quality assurance of reusable software components and quality assurance of the a...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson
Abstract. Many well-established concepts of object-oriented programming work for individual objects, but do not support object structures. The development of a verifying compiler r...
An increasing number of planners can handle uncertainty in the domain or in action outcomes. However, less work has addressed building plans when the planner's world can chan...
1 describe an approach to the problem of forming hypotheses about hidden mechanisms w; thin devices — the "black box" problem for physical systems. The approach involv...
Retaining functionality of a mobile robot in the presence of faults is of particular interest in autonomous robotics. From our experiences in robotics we know that hardware is one ...