The specification, design and implementation of embedded systems demands new approaches which go beyond traditional hardware-based notations such as HDLs. The growing dominance of...
In large-scale, distributed software systems, an important management undertaking concerns the creation and runtime modification of application instances. This short paper propose...
In this paper we present how to use the Agent MOdeling LAnguage (AMOLA) to define agent interaction protocols and how to integrate these in an agent model. AMOLA provides the synt...
: Though it is widely recognized that object-oriented methodologies are most effective in developing large scale software, it is still dif cult to apply high level computer support...
The paper introduces a method to model embedded dependability-critical systems as AND-composition of Guarded Statecharts which are special UMLstatecharts. With Guarded Statecharts...