Object composition is often advocated as a more flexible alternative to standard class inheritance since it takes place at run-time, thus permitting the behavior of objects to be ...
This paper presents new achievements on the automatic mapping of algorithms, written in imperative software programming languages, to custom computing machines. The reconfigurable ...
Abstract. The ability of reacting to changes in the external environment is of crucial importance within the context of software agents. Such feature must however be suitably recon...
Abstract. We present a process for validating temporal safety properties of software that uses a well-defined interface. The process requires only that the user state the property...
Abstract: A mass market in reusable components demands a high level of component quality, testing being a crucial part of software quality assurance. For components modelled in UML...
Simon Pickin, Claude Jard, Thierry Heuillard, Jean...