Abstract. Quantitative verification techniques are able to establish system properties such as "the probability of an airbag failing to deploy on demand" or "the exp...
ASEME is an emerging Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodology. The Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) paradigm encourages software modelers to automate the transition of...
Abstract--Nowadays, novel applications, such as personalized e-commerce services, call for cooperation across enterprise boundaries. Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) forms a sol...
This paper proposes a simple framework for building 'virtual networking agents'; programs that can communicate with users and collect information through the internet. T...
For `mixed-criticality' systems that have both critical and non-critical functions, the greatest leverage on dependability may be at the design level. By designing so that ea...