We present a model checker for verifying distributed programs written in the Erlang programming language. Providing a model checker for Erlang is especially rewarding since the la...
The forthcoming OMG UML Profile for Modeling and Analysis of Real-Time Embedded systems (MARTE) aims, amongst other things, at providing a referential Time Model subprofile wher...
Secure software engineering is a new research area that has been proposed to address security issues during the development of software systems. This new area of research advocates...
Abstract. In this paper we propose to regard an Agent Communication Language (ACL) as a set of conventions to act on a fragment of institutional reality, defined in the context of...
Formal specifications of protocol-oriented agent interactions have focused mainly on the semantics of the constituent agent communication language (ACL). We argue that a proper th...