The real needs of end users of software technology are often neglected until it is too late. An approach is outlined that puts people before technology, and investigates the real ...
Model checking requires a specification of the target system’s desirable properties, some of which are temporal. Formulating a property of the system based on either its abstrac...
Social and intentional behaviours appear as two main components of the agent paradigm. Methods of conventional software engineering do not seem to be appropriate to gain a full kno...
MicroQoSCORBA (MQC) is a middleware platform that focuses on embedded applications by providing a very fine level of configurability of its internal orthogonal components. Using t...
Embedded systems design requires the development of complex HW modules to cope with the most stringent timing constraints of the specifications. This implies the need to update an...