In the design of highly complex, heterogeneous, and concurrent systems, deadlock detection and resolution remains an important issue. In this paper, we systematically analyze the ...
Xi Chen, Abhijit Davare, Harry Hsieh, Alberto L. S...
The Cell Formation Problem is a crucial component of a cell production design in a manufacturing system. This problem consists of a set of product parts to be manufactured in a gr...
Andres Pailla, Athila R. Trindade, Victor Parada, ...
Abstract. Spatial logics have been introduced to reason about distributed computation in models for concurrency. We first define a spatial logic for a general class of infinite-...
UML2 and SysML try to adopt techniques known from software development to systems engineering. However, the focus has been put on modeling aspects until now and quantitative perfo...
We present a symbolic framework for refinement and composition of security protocols. ework uses the notion of ideal functionalities. These are abstract systems which are secure b...