We believe that tool support is very important for any methodology. In this paper we describe PDT (Prometheus Design Tool) which supports the design of an intelligent agent system...
Mobile agents, programs that move within a system performing a set of tasks, are an active field of research. The focus of current research, however, is on the development of exe...
We propose and explore a formal approach for black-box testing asynchronously communicating components in open environments. Asynchronicity poses a challenge for validating and tes...
Immo Grabe, Marcel Kyas, Martin Steffen, Arild B. ...
This paper describes techniques to estimate the worst case execution time of executable code on architectures with data caches. The underlying mechanism is Abstract Interpretation...
Esterel is a system-level language for the modelling, verification and synthesis of control dominated (reactive) embedded systems. Existing Esterel compilers generate intermediat...
Partha S. Roop, Zoran A. Salcic, M. W. Sajeewa Day...