Initial system specifications, such as use-case scenarios and properties, only partially specify the future system. We posit that synthesizing partial component-level behavior mod...
Ivo Krka, Yuriy Brun, George Edwards, Nenad Medvid...
Ubicomp applications are characterized as situationaware, frequently-and-ephemerally-communicated and QoS-properties-associated. Using middleware to provide multiple QoS support f...
Stephen S. Yau, Yu Wang, Dazhi Huang, Hoh Peter In
Abstract. The UML-based Specification Environment (USE) tool supports the syntactic analysis, type checking, consistency checking, and dynamic validation of invariants and pre-/pos...
Wuliang Sun, Eunjee Song, Paul C. Grabow, Devon M....
Software systems are becoming more and more complex with a large number of interacting partners often distributed over a network. A common dilemma faced by software engineers in b...
Successive, formal refinement is a new approach for specification of embedded systems using a general-purpose programming language. Systems are formally modeled as Abstractable Sy...
James Shin Young, Josh MacDonald, Michael Shilman,...