Inheritance is a useful mechanism for factoring and reusing code. However, it has limitations for building extensible systems. We describe nested inheritance, a mechanism that add...
System specifications are often structured as collections of scenarios and use-cases that describe desired and forbidden sequences of events. A recently proposed behavioral progr...
David Harel, Robby Lampert, Assaf Marron, Gera Wei...
Building complex component-based software architectures can lead to subtle assemblage errors. In this paper, we introduce a typesystem-based approach to avoid message handling err...
Michael Lienhardt, Alan Schmitt, Jean-Bernard Stef...
This paper presents the design and the implementation of an interface software component between OLE for Process Control (OPC) formatted data and the Global ...
Olivier Passalacqua, Eric Benoit, Marc-Philippe Hu...
Internet-based multi-agent systems call for new metaphors, abstractions, methodologies and enabling technologies specifically tailored to agent-oriented engineering. While coordin...