This paper presents a formal language for the design of component-based enterprise system. The language (StAC) allows the usual parallel and sequential behaviours, but most signifi...
The design of distributed applications in a CORBA based environment can be carried out by means of an incremental approach, which starts from the specification and leads to the hi...
Formal modelling, in interactive system design, has received considerably less real use than might have been hoped. Heavy weight formal methods can be expensive to use, with poor c...
Abstract. During the last years, a number of formal specification languages for knowledge-based systems have been developed. Characteristic for knowledge-based systems are a comple...
Pascal van Eck, Joeri Engelfriet, Dieter Fensel, F...
Abstract. The complete specification of full contracts -- contracts which include tolerated exceptions, and which enable reasoning about the contracts themselves, can be achieved u...