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CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An experimental study of the emergent behaviors of self-organized agent communities
—Emergent behavior is an essential feature in multi-agent systems and plays a significant role in the applications of agent technology. Because of the huge gap between individual...
Shufeng Wang, Hong Zhu
EMSOFT
2006
Springer
14 years 15 days ago
Software partitioning for effective automated unit testing
A key problem for effective unit testing is the difficulty of partitioning large software systems into appropriate units that can be tested in isolation. We present an approach th...
Arindam Chakrabarti, Patrice Godefroid
FTCS
1998
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13 years 10 months ago
Improving Software Robustness with Dependability Cases
Programs fail mainly for two reasons: logic errors in the code, and exception failures. Exception failures can account for up to 2/3 of system crashes [6], hence are worthy of ser...
Roy A. Maxion, Robert T. Olszewski
ASE
2008
135views more  ASE 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Deriving event-based transition systems from goal-oriented requirements models
Goal-oriented methods are increasingly popular for elaborating software requirements. They offer systematic support for incrementally building intentional, structural, and operati...
Emmanuel Letier, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Sebasti&...
LISP
2008
105views more  LISP 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Proving operational termination of membership equational programs
Abstract Reasoning about the termination of equational programs in sophisticated equational languages such as ELAN, MAUDE, OBJ, CAFEOBJ, HASKELL, and so on, requires support for ad...
Francisco Durán, Salvador Lucas, Claude Mar...