Abstract. I develop a compositional theory of refinement for the branching time framework based on stuttering simulation and prove that if one system refines another, then a refine...
This paper generalises the theory of agent refinement from [1] to multi-agent systems in the presence of new coordination mechanisms extended with real time. The generalisation is ...
Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Frank S. de Boer, Mehdi D...
A specification theory combines notions of specifications and implementations with a satisfaction relation, a refinement relation and a set of operators supporting stepwise design...
Alexandre David, Kim G. Larsen, Axel Legay, Ulrik ...
Abstract. This paper develops a highly expressive semantic framework for program refinement that supports both temporal reasoning and reasoning about the knowledge of a single agen...
Interface theories have been proposed to support incremental design and independent implementability. Incremental design means that the compatibility checking of interfaces can pr...
Laurent Doyen, Thomas A. Henzinger, Barbara Jobstm...