In component-based software development, it is important to ensure interoperability between components based on their unambiguous semantic descriptions, in order to obtain a viabl...
We present a novel approach to parallel Boolean satisfiability (SAT) checking. A distinctive feature of our parallel SAT checker is that it incorporates all essential heuristics ...
Wolfgang Blochinger, Carsten Sinz, Wolfgang Kü...
While there are many useful models of agents and multi-agent systems, they are typically defined in an informal way and applied in an ad-hoc fashion. Consequently, multi-agent sys...
Vincent Hilaire, Olivier Simonin, Abder Koukam, Ja...
When making an engineering design decision, it is often necessary to consider its implications on both system performance and dependability. In this paper, we present a performabi...
Ann T. Tai, William H. Sanders, Leon Alkalai, Savi...
According to Parnas's information hiding principle and Baldwin and Clark's design rule theory, the key step to decomposing a system into modules is to determine the desi...
Sunny Huynh, Yuanfang Cai, Yuanyuan Song, Kevin J....