A specification theory combines notions of specifications and implementations with a satisfaction relation, a refinement relation and a set of operators supporting stepwise design...
Alexandre David, Kim G. Larsen, Axel Legay, Ulrik ...
Abstract. Pushdown systems (PDSs) are an automata-theoretic formalism for specifying a class of infinite-state transition systems. Infiniteness comes from the fact that each con...
— High level synthesis is one of the next major steps to improve the hw/sw co-design process. The advantages of high nthesis are two-fold. At first the level of abstraction is r...
Inferences about speech acts are often conditional, nonmonotonic, and involve the issue of time. Most agent communication languages, however, ignore these issues, due to the dif...
A real-time database is a database in which both the data and the operations upon the data may have timing constraints. We have integrated real-time, object-oriented, semantic and ...
Janet J. Prichard, Lisa Cingiser DiPippo, Joan Pec...