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Software engineering has entered a new era, the Internet and its associated technologies require a different conceptual framework for building and understanding software solutions. Users ask to develop applications more...

"Various tools for program analysis, including run-time assertion checkers and static analyzers such as verification and test generation tools, require formal specifications of the programs being analyzed. Moreover, many...

"The failures that bugs in software lead to can sometimes be bypassed by the so called workarounds: when a (faulty) routine fails, alternative routines that the system offers can be used in place of the failing one, to ...

"The failures that bugs in software lead to can sometimes be bypassed by the so-called workarounds: when a (faulty) routine fails, alternative routines that the system offers can be used in place of the failing one, to c...

Test-based automated program repair (TB-APR) techniques automatically fix buggy programs by relying on a failing test suite. This test suite serves a dual purpose: pinpointing bugs and evaluating the validity of potentia...

The importance of correctly determining the requirements of a system at the very beginning of the development process it is a well known fact. Experience shows that the incorrect definition of the requirements leads to t...

The importance of correctly determining the requirements of a system at the very beginning of the development process it is a well known fact. Experience shows that the incorrect definition of the requirements leads to t...

La Arquitectura Model Driven (MDA) promueve el uso de modelos y transformaciones de modelos para desarrollar sistemas de software. La idea central de MDA es manejar la evolución de modelos independientes de la plataform...

Automated program repair often relies on syntactic transformations, generating large numbers of fix candidates whose correctness must be validated. Due to the combinatorial explosion of candidate combinations, existing t...

"Program repair techniques attempt to fix programs by looking for patches within a search space of fix candidates. These techniques require a specification of the program to be repaired, used as an acceptance criterion f...

The Standardization of a development process for systems of medium complexity, entirely supported by an integrated development environment, could mean a double contribution to the industry of systems development. On the ...

"In previous articles we presented Argentum, a tool for reasoning across heterogeneous specifications based on the language of fork algebras. Argentum’s foundations were formalized in the framework of institutions. The...

"Formal requirements specifications, eg, software cost reduction (SCR) specifications, are challenging to analyse using automated techniques such as model checking. Since such specifications are meant to capture requirem...

Abstract This paper presents a four-wheel differential-drive (4WD) autonomous platform that consolidates grass cutting, collection, leaf crushing, and precision seeding through modular, quick-release toolheads. A vertica...

This paper links three areas: reflections on translation as a decision process, the field of institutional translation, and translation manuals / style guides. Inherently, human translation is a decision-making process. ...

There are two main activities in Component-Based Development: component development, where we build libraries for general use, and component integration, where we assemble an application from existing components. In this...

Ensuring the correctness of a given software component has become a crucial aspect in Software Engineering and the Model Checking technique provides a fully automated way to achieve this goal. In particular, the usage o...

In today’s world, in both the public or private organizations, there exists the problem that the organizations have to create value, are changing, but the tools to measure them are not. On the other hand, in the curren...

Ensuring the correctness of a given software component has become a crucial aspect in Software Engineering and the Model Checking technique provides a fully automated way to achieve this goal. In particular, the usage of...

"The world of software development has become intrinsically heterogeneous. Many formal languages have been made available to help analysts and designers model different aspects of software. Some examples in the logic rea...

A sibutramina é um fármaco anorexígeno indicado para o tratamento da obesidade e redução de peso corpóreo, em conjunto com dieta e exercícios físicos. No Brasil, encontra-se comercialmente na forma farmacêutic...

La actividad de desarrollar programas orientados a objetos, los cuales involucran referencias a memoria, pueden introducir errores difíciles de identificar con el uso de un razonamiento operacional. Esto da lugar a la n...

I have been teaching, in reality, preaching, the importance of a clear understanding for the word “analysis”. It is my conclusion, after years of exposure to the term “system analysis”, that it has mislead lots o...