In this paper we consider two descriptions in Maude of the leader election protocol from the IEEE 1394 serial multimedia bus. Particularly, the time aspects of the protocol are st...
The refinement calculus is a well-established theory for translating specifications to program code. Recent research has extended the calculus to handle real-time requirements and...
Dynamics are an important aspect of agent models. Control of dynamics requires specific methods of specification that have their own specific semantics. This paper addresses speci...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Tr...
Together with the concept of reversibility, another relevant physical notion is time-symmetry, which expresses that there is no way of distinguishing between backward and forward t...
Nested-word automata (NWAs) are a language formalism that helps bridge the gap between finite-state automata and pushdown automata. NWAs can express some context-free properties, ...