Using multi-agent models to study social systems has attracted criticisms because of the challenges involved in their validation. Common criticisms that we have encountered are de...
Formal specification and verification of protocols have been credited for uncovering protocol flaws; revealing inadequacies in protocol design of the Initial Stage and Negotiation...
Rong Du, Ernest Foo, Colin Boyd, Kim-Kwang Raymond...
—Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is an emerging paradigm for developing software systems that employ services. Presently there is already much research effort in the areas of se...
Mikhail Perepletchikov, Caspar Ryan, Keith Frampto...
System-level design methodologies for embedded HW/SW systems face several challenges: In order to be susceptible to systematic formal analysis based on state-space exploration, a ...
Modeling and simulation tools have been used for helping in the early stages of hardware/software systems design. The DEVS formalism is a technique that enables hierarchical descr...