For a number of programming languages, among them Eiffel, C, Java and Ruby, Hoare-style logics and dynamic logics have been developed. In these logics, pre- and postconditions are ...
Multi-agent systems have proven to be a powerful technology for building complex distributed applications. However, the process of designing, configuring and deploying agent-based...
Csongor Nyulas, Martin J. O'Connor, Samson W. Tu, ...
Abstract--S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continu...
Leonardo Neumeyer, Bruce Robbins, Anish Nair, Anan...
with existing analysis tools. Modular reasoning principles such as abstraction, compositional refinement, and assume-guarantee reasoning are well understood for architectural hiera...
Complex software systems possess concurrent and reactive behaviors requiring precise specifications prior to development. Lamport's transition axiom method is a formal specif...
Jagadish Suryadevara, Lawrence Chung, R. K. Shyama...