We present a pragmatic approach using formal methods to increase the quality of distributed component based systems: Based on UML class diagrams annotated with OCL constraints, co...
Scienti c research addressing global change continues to generate large quantities of information for analysis and understanding. However, the volume, distributed nature, and dive...
Betty H. C. Cheng, Robert H. Bourdeau, Gerald C. G...
We describe a technique for writing distributed applications which manage themselves over one or more utility computing infrastructures: by dynamically acquiring new computational...
Qin Yin, Justin Cappos, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Ro...
Model checking is a promising approach to automatic verification, which has concentrated on specification expressed in temporal logic. Comparatively little attention has been give...
Though multiagent systems (MASs) are being increasingly used, few methods exist to ensure survivability of MASs. All existing methods suffer from two flaws. First, a centralized su...