Software architectures shift the focus of developers from lines-of-code to coarser-grained elements and their interconnection structure. Architecture description languages (ADLs) ...
The increasing size and complexity of designs is making the use of hardware description languages (HDLs), such as Verilog and VHDL, more prevalent. They are able to describe both ...
The new Associative Language Description (ALD) model, a combination of locally testable and constituent structure ideas, is proposed, arguing that in practice it equals context-fr...
Many tools designed to help programmers view and manipulate source code exploit the formal structure of the programming language. Language-based tools use information derived via ...
Since the concept of autopoiesis was proposed as a model of minimal living systems by Maturana and Varela, and applied to social systems by Luhmann, there has been only a few math...