Many approaches of the agent paradigm emphasize the social and intentional features of their systems, what are called social properties. The study of these aspects demands their ow...
This paper proposes a revised semantic interpretation of UML Statechart Diagrams which ensures, under the specified design rules, that Statecharts may be constructed to have true ...
Hybrid systems like computer-controlled chemical plants are typical safety critical distributed systems. In present practice, the safety of hybrid systems is guaranteed by hazard ...
Temporal media is information that is directly consumed by a user, and that varies with time. Examples include music, digital sound files, computer animations, and video clips. I...
In this paper, we present our work on creating a complete set of rules for temporal arithmetic mixing months and days based on the “history-dependent intuition”. Many examples...