with existing analysis tools. Modular reasoning principles such as abstraction, compositional refinement, and assume-guarantee reasoning are well understood for architectural hiera...
Combining third party software components to customer-individual application systems requires first, standardized specification techniques for describing the technical as well as ...
In order to create adaptive Agent Systems with abilities matching those of their biological counterparts, a natural approach is to incorporate classical conditioning mechanisms int...
Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Sander A. Los, L...
The idea of a combined reference model- and view-based specification approach has been proposed recently in the software engineering community. In this paper we present a specifica...
Gregor Engels, Reiko Heckel, Gabriele Taentzer, Ha...
This paper discusses highly general mechanisms for specifying the refinement of a real-time system as a collection of lower level parallel components that preserve the timing and f...
Paul Z. Kolano, Richard A. Kemmerer, Dino Mandriol...