Use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products is becoming a popular software development method. Current methods of selecting COTS products involve using the intuition of softwa...
The problem of mechanically formalizing and proving metatheoretic properties of programming language calculi, type systems, operational semantics, and related formal systems has r...
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 ...
Abstract. The concept of software architecture has created a new scenario for incorporating non-functional and transactional requirements into the software design. Transactional an...
Nelson S. Rosa, George R. Ribeiro-Justo, P. R. F. ...
The ability to communicate is one of the salient properties of agents. Although a number of agent communication languages (ACLs) have been developed, obtaining a suitable formal se...