We present an approach to spatial inference which is based on the procedural semantics of spatial relations. In contrast to qualitative reasoning, we do not use discrete symbolic m...
Sylvia Wiebrock, Lars Wittenburg, Ute Schmid, Frit...
Concurrent Action-Oriented Specifications (CAOS) model the behavior of a synchronous hardware circuit as asynchronous guarded at an abstraction level higher than the Register Tran...
The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy and cooperation. Mainstream object-oriented modeling techniques do not a...
In this paper, we develop an automated framework for formal verification of timed continuous Petri nets (ContPNs). Specifically, we consider two problems: (1) given an initial set ...
Marius Kloetzer, Cristian Mahulea, Calin Belta, Ma...
In this paper we argue for UML-based metamodeling and pattern-based graph transformation techniques in computer-based systems development through an illustrative example from the ...
Tivadar Szemethy, Gabor Karsai, Daniel Balasubrama...