This paper discusses a model-based design flow for requirements in distributed embedded software development. Such requirements are specified using a language similar to Linear T...
Luciano Lavagno, Marco Di Natale, Alberto Ferrari,...
This article aims to provide foundations for a new approach to Agent Communication Languages (ACLs). First, we present the theory of signalling acts. In contrast to current approa...
In this paper, we develop a new language construct to address one of the pitfalls of parallel programming: precise handling of events across parallel components. The construct, te...
William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Janis Sermulins,...
for data abstraction and justifies reasoning by simulation. Representation independence has been shown for a variety of languages and constructs but not for shared references to mu...
The efficacy of mutation analysis depends heavily on its capability to mutate programs in such a way that they remain executable and exhibit deviating behaviour. Whereas the forme...