We describe a system for specifying the effects of actions. Unlike those commonly used in AI planning, our system uses an action description language that allows one to specify t...
Today’s module systems do not effectively support information hiding in the presence of shared mutable objects, causing serious problems in the development and evolution of larg...
Abstract. Hierarchical and recursive state machines are suitable abstract models for many software systems. In this paper we extend a model recently introduced in literature, by al...
Salvatore La Torre, Margherita Napoli, Mimmo Paren...
Security and reliability are of paramount importance in designing and building real-time systems because any security failure can put the public and the environment at risk. In th...
This paper proposes the modeling of technical systems and their behavior by means of Unified Modeling Language (UML) State Machines and the extending UML Profile for Schedulabil...