Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) is a notation used in practice by protocol designers and system engineers. It is defined within an international standard (ITU Z120), and is also i...
David Parnas wrote several papers in the 1970's and 1980's that are now considered classics. The concepts he advocated such as information hiding and bstract interfaces ...
We investigate the applicability of classical resolution-based theorem proving methods for the Semantic Web. We consider several well-known search strategies, propose a general sch...
Constructing models of systems that change their structure over time has proved to be a challenging problem, with several proposed solutions. We present two of these approaches an...
Fernando J. Barros, Bernard P. Zeigler, Paul A. Fi...
I discuss formal description techniques (FDTs) as they are applied in practice in software and system engineering. Their quality can be measured by their formality, descriptivenes...