The frequent changes during the development and usage of large software systems often lead to a loss of architectural quality which hampers the implementation of further changes a...
Abstract. Intel is applying formal verification to various pieces of mathematical software used in Merced, the first implementation of the new IA-64 architecture. This paper discus...
We present a tool for the design and validation of embedded real-time applications. The tool integrates two approaches, the use of the synchronous programming language ESTEREL for...
Abstract. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed or evolving software. To formally define system archit...
Web services (WS) provide a technology for integrating applications over the Internet. This paper proposes a multi-agent conceptual model of WS and an agent-oriented modelling and...