— Production automation systems consist of many entities (like robots and shuttles) that interact in complex ways to provide the overall system functionality like product assembl...
TinyOS applications are built with software components that communicate through narrow interfaces. Since components enable finegrained code reuse, this approach has been successf...
This paper discusses a model-based design flow for requirements in distributed embedded software development. Such requirements are specified using a language similar to Linear T...
Luciano Lavagno, Marco Di Natale, Alberto Ferrari,...
Every novel cooperative arrangement of mutually suspicious parties interacting electronically -- every smart contract -- effectively requires a new cryptographic protocol. However,...
The maintenance of organisation is a prerequisite for all viable systems in dynamic environments. In many living systems this organisation is, in part, achieved through coordinati...