Abstract. Engineering non-trivial open multi-agent systems is a challenging task. Our research focusses on situated multi-agent systems, i.e. systems in which agents are explicitly...
Secure computer systems use both mandatory and discretionary access controls to restrict the flow of information through legitimate communication channels such as files, shared ...
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a linear syntax for trees, which has gathered a remarkable amount of interest in industry. The acceptance of XML opens new venues for the appli...
This paper presents an approach and a tool to increase specification quality by using a combination of UML and formal languages. Our approach is based on the expression of the UML ...
Program transformation systems provide one means of formally deriving a program from its speci cation. The main advantage of this development method is that the executable program...