Retrenchment is presented in a simple relational framework as a more flexible development concept than refinement for capturing the early preformal stages of development, and brie...
The development of distributed applications is an open area involving researchers from different communities. We propose an object-oriented approach to the development of distribu...
A calculus is presented for the stepwise refinement of abstract information flow architectures. We give a mathematical model for information flow components based on relations bet...
Abstract. We present a technique for designing reconfiguration controllers in the Fractal component-based framework. We obtain discrete control loops that automatically enforce saf...
Abstract. Declarative debugging has been applied to many declarative programming paradigms; in this paper, a declarative debugger for rewriting logic specifications, embodied in th...