Social and intentional behaviours appear as two main components of the agent paradigm. Methods of conventional software engineering do not seem to be appropriate to gain a full kno...
Fault tolerance is a constant concern in data centers where servers have to run with a minimal level of failures. Changes on the operating conditions or on server demands, and var...
This paper reports on the use of coordination contracts, presented at the previous two IWPSE workshops, in a project for a credit recovery company. We have designed and implemente...
Michel Wermelinger, Georgios Koutsoukos, Richard A...
Design by Contract is a design methodology that promotes software reliability and reusability by requiring each component module to have a well-specified interface and leaves a mo...
Phillip L. Nico, Clark Savage Turner, Kimberly Kno...
r in: Abstract State Machines 2003 — Advances in Theory and Applications, Proc. 10th International Workshop, Taormina, Italy, March 3-7, 2003, eds. Egon Boerger, Angelo Gargantin...