Many developers who could benefit from building and analysing formal models of their systems are deterred from doing so by the process algebra style input languages of formal mode...
Peter Henderson, Robert John Walters, Stephen Crou...
Graphical representations have long been associated with more efficient problem solving. More recently, researchers have begun looking at how representation may affect the informat...
Several aspect languages and frameworks have recognized the need for dynamic deployment of aspects. However, they do not provide sufficiently expressive means to precisely specify...
Verification that agent communication protocols have desirable properties or do not have undesirable properties is an important issue in agent systems where agents intend to commu...
Katie Atkinson, Roderic A. Girle, Peter McBurney, ...
Fault-tolerant mechanisms have been increasingly used to develop safety-critical systems in the past years. Therefore the accurate description of these mechanisms is crucial if we...
Cristiano Bertolini, Leonardo Brenner, Paulo Ferna...