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SEKE
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Formal Reasoning about Emergent Behaviours of Multi-Agent Systems
Abstract. Emergent behaviour (EB) is a common phenomenon in multi-agent systems (MAS) where autonomous agents perform certain actions with only limited access to local information ...
Hong Zhu
ESTIMEDIA
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Component Oriented Simulator for HW/SW Co-Designs
In order to extensively explore design space one has to specify a n a very abstract level. Transforming a specification into a correct implementation is usually an error prone tas...
Alexander Paar, Haitao Du, Nader Bagherzadeh
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
A behavioural model for product families
In this paper we propose a behavioural model, namely the Extended Modal Labeled Transition Systems, as a basis for the formalization of the different notions of variability usuall...
Alessandro Fantechi, Stefania Gnesi
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Making embedded software reuse practical and safe
Reuse of application software has been limited and sometimes has led to accidents. This paper suggests some requirements for successful and safe application software reuse and dem...
Nancy G. Leveson, Kathryn Anne Weiss
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Ownership and Immutability Inference for UML-Based Object Access Control
We propose a mechanism for object access control which is based on the UML. Specifically, we propose use of ownership and immutability constraints on UML associations and verifica...
Yin Liu, Ana Milanova