Abstract. Design by contract is a well known theory that views software construction as based on contracts between clients (callers) and suppliers (routines), relying on mutual obl...
There exist many application classes for which the users have significant flexibility in the quality of output they desire. At the same time, there are other constraints, such a...
To understand the performance of modern Java systems one must observe execution in the context of specific architectures. It is also important that we make these observations usi...
J. Eliot B. Moss, Charles C. Weems, Timothy Richar...
rovides an abstract programmer’s model for the implementation of embedded control systems with hard real-time constraints. A typical control application consists of periodic soft...
Thomas A. Henzinger, Benjamin Horowitz, Christoph ...
In this paper, we present a multi-layered architecture for spatial and temporal agents. The focus is laid on the declarativity of the approach, which makes agent scripts expressive...
Frieder Stolzenburg, Oliver Obst, Jan Murray, Bj&o...