Organizations increasingly coordinate their product and service development processes to deliver their products and services as fast as possible, and to involve employees, custome...
Interacting State Machines (ISMs) are used to model reactive systems and to express and verify their properties. They can be seen both as automata exchanging messages simultaneousl...
From a software engineering perspective, agent systems are a specialization of object-oriented (OO) systems, in which individual objects have their own threads of control and thei...
All systems, regardless of how carefully they have been constructed, suffer failures. This paper focuses on developing a formal understanding of failure with respect to system imp...
In this paper we present a framework for identifying the test focus and test objectives based on the assumption that automatic information processing based on encoded meaning is th...