We consider a specific kind of Abstract State Machines. It is shown how the machines can be used to provide a low-level formal semantics for a tiny object-oriented language, inclu...
Model Driven Engineering (MDE) proposes a software development process in which software is built by constructing one or more models, and transforming these into other models. In t...
Roxana S. Giandini, Claudia Pons, Gabriela P&eacut...
Research on agent communication languages has typically taken the speech acts paradigm as its starting point. Despite their manifest attractions, speech-act models of communicatio...
A composition language based on a formal semantic foundation will facilitate precification of glue abstractions and compositions, and will support reasoning about their behaviour....
Recently, the ITU-standardised specification language Message Sequence Chart has been extended with constructs for more complete and structured specifications. The new version of ...