We consider soft constraint problems where some of the preferences may be unspecified. This models, for example, situations with several agents providing the data, or with possibl...
Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, ...
The formal description technique RT-LOTOS has been selected as intermediate language to add formality to a real-time UML profile named TURTLE. For this sake, an RT-LOTOS verificat...
Tarek Sadani, Pierre de Saqui-Sannes, Jean-Pierre ...
We introduce PLC-Automata as a new class of automata which are tailored to deal with real-time properties of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). These devices are often used in...
Hierarchical state machines is a popular visual formalism for software specifications. To apply automated analysis to such specifications, the traditional approach is to compile th...
Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivate a methodology, called Tropos,1 for building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion...
Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini, Faus...