The client-server model has been successfully used to support a wide variety of families of services in the context of distributed systems. However, its server-centric nature make...
The Automated Production Systems (APS) are composed of concurrent interacting entities. Then any model should exhibit parallel and sequential behaviours. The Grafcet is now well e...
—Before designing safety- or mission-critical real-time systems, a specification of the required behavior of the system should be produced and reviewed by domain experts. After ...
Traditional interprocedural data-flow analysis is performed on whole programs; however, such whole-program analysis is not feasible for large or incomplete programs. We propose fr...
Support for system speci cation in terms of modelling and simulation environments has become a common practice in safety-critical applications. Also, a current trend is the automat...