Agents are a useful abstraction frequently employed as a basic building block in modeling service, information and resource sharing in global environments. The connecting of reques...
Abstract. The need to use position-dependent parameters often hamdefinition of flexible, extensible, and reusable abstractions for software composition. This observation has led ...
Safety is increasingly important for software based, critical systems. Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a safety technique from engineering, developed for analyzing and assessing syste...
This paper presents three sets of classification schemes for processes, properties, and transitions that can be used to assist in the analysis of real-time systems. These classifi...
Beginning with BETA, a range of programming language mechanisms such as virtual classes (class-valued attributes of objects) have been developed to allow inheritance in the presen...
Dave Clarke, Sophia Drossopoulou, James Noble, Tob...