Many recent research projects focus on language support for behavioral software contracts, that is, assertions that govern the boundaries between software building blocks such as ...
In numerous economic scenarios, contracting parties may not have a clear picture of all the relevant aspects. While confronted with these unawareness issues, the strategic decisio...
Good components need precise contracts. In the practice of Design by ContractTM , applications and libraries typically express, in their postconditions and class invariants, only a...
This paper is about ...nancial contracting choices for the entrepreneur. In an incomplete contracts model, the entrepreneur can design contracts contingent on three possible contr...
When designing a software module or system, a systems engineer must consider and differentiate between how the system responds to external and internal errors. External errors can...