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...
System specifications are often structured as collections of scenarios and use-cases that describe desired and forbidden sequences of events. A recently proposed behavioral progr...
David Harel, Robby Lampert, Assaf Marron, Gera Wei...
Programs that use multi-threaded concurrency are known to be difficult to design. Moreover, research in computer-science education suggests that concurrency and synchronization co...
In this paper, we present a new design methodology for synchronous reactive systems, based on a clear separation between control and data flow parts. This methodology allows to fa...
Ouassila Labbani, Jean-Luc Dekeyser, Pierre Boulet
with this, the thread abstraction was introduced. While threads are handling events, or awaiting specific events, unrelated events can be handled by other threads. Unfortunately, ...