We consider a specific kind of Abstract State Machines. It is shown how the machines can be used to provide a low-level formal semantics for a tiny object-oriented language, inclu...
Concurrency is an essential element of abstract models for embedded systems. Correctness and e ciency of the design depend critically on the way concurrency is formalized and imple...
Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Marco Sgroi, L...
Just as actions can have indirect effects on the state of the world, so too can sensing actions have indirect effects on an agent's state of knowledge. In this paper, we inve...
The MPSG (Message-based Part State Graph) model has been developed for the execution portion of shop-floor controllers that operate in a distributed and hierarchical control envir...
Devinder Thapa, Jaeil Park, Gi-Nam Wang, Dongmin S...