—This paper describes three case studies in the lightweight application of formal methods to requirements modeling for spacecraft fault protection systems. The case studies diffe...
Steve M. Easterbrook, Robyn R. Lutz, Richard Covin...
Although computers are widely used to simulate complex physical systems, crafting the underlying models that enable computer analysis remains difficult. When a model is created fo...
Mobile agents, programs that move within a system performing a set of tasks, are an active field of research. The focus of current research, however, is on the development of exe...
Abstract. The process industries (chemicals, food, oil, ...) are characterized by - continuous or batch -- processes of material transformation. The design of such processes, and t...
When enacting a web service orchestration defined using the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) we observed various safety property violations. This surprised us considerab...
David S. Rosenblum, Howard Foster, Jeff Kramer, Je...