— A trend is emerging in the fields of ambient intelligence (AmI) and autonomous robotics, which points in the direction of a merger between these two fields. The inclusion of ...
This paper reports on the design and implementation of FLORA -- a powerful DOOD system that incorporates the features of F-logic, HiLog, and Transaction Logic. FLORA is implemented...
Based on the notion of event-based behavioral abstraction EBBA we specify properties of object-oriented distributed systems in linear time temporal logic. These properties are the...
Experiences with the use of the MSC language for complex system specifications have shown that certain extensions are necessary in order to arrive at sufficiently transparent and m...
One view of expert system development separates the endeavor into two parts. First, a domain expert, with the aid of a knowledge engineer, articulates a procedure for performing t...