Analysis and design by contract allows the definition of a formal agreement between a class and its clients, expressing each party’s rights and obligations. Contracts written in ...
Wojciech J. Dzidek, Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche
Multimodal interfaces combining, e.g., natural language and graphics take advantage of both the individual strength of each communication mode and the fact that several modes can ...
The Unified Modelling Language (UML) ostensibly assumes a four level (meta) modelling framework, both for its definition and for the conceptual context in which its users operate. ...
The Uni ed Modeling Language UML is rapidly emerging as a de-facto standard for modelling OO systems. Given this role, it is imperative that the UML needs a well-de ned, fully expl...
Andy Evans, Robert B. France, Kevin Lano, Bernhard...
Abstract The variety of existing agent-based simulations is overwhelming. However – especially when comparing agent-based simulation to other simulation paradigms, a reference fr...