This paper argues for an alternative way of designing coordination models for parallel and distributed environments based on a complete symmetry between and decoupling of producers...
In recent years light-weighted formal methods are of growing interest in construction and analysis of complex concurrent software system. A new rule-action based term rewriting fr...
There is an urgent need to provide a sound generic framework for method and tool integration, where many differing notations are used, software development is distributed and mana...
Proof-carrying code (PCC) is a general framework that can, in principle, verify safety properties of arbitrary machine-language programs. Existing PCC systems and typed assembly l...
Before the powerful agent programming paradigm can be adopted in commercial or industrial settings, a complete environment, similar to that for other programming languages, must b...
John R. Graham, Daniel McHugh, Michael Mersic, Fos...