Specification, validation, and synthesis are important aspects of embedded systems design. The use of dataflow-based design environments for these purposes is becoming increasingl...
Predicate dispatch is an object-oriented (OO) language mechanism for determining the method implementation to be invoked upon a message send. With predicate dispatch, each method ...
Existing security models require that information of a given security level be prevented from “leaking” into lower-security information. High-security applications must be dem...
Simon’s The Sciences of the Artificial is rightly influential as a founding text in design research in the information systems field (IS). Simon’s contributions in the same vo...
We propose rewriting logic as a unifying framework for a wide range of Petri nets models. We treat in detail place/transition nets and important extensions of the basic model by in...