A brief explanation is given of the language ANISE (Architectural Notions In Service Engineering) that can be used to describe generic services as well as telecommunications servi...
Subbisimilarity is proposed as a general tool to classify the relative expressive power of process calculi. The expressiveness of several variants of CCS is compared in terms of t...
In a previous paper, we developed an algebraic theory of threads, interleaving of threads, and interaction between threads and services. In the current paper, we extend that theory...
Network protocol performance and evaluation study is often carried out using a couple of widely used simulation toolkits, such as ns-2 and OPNET. These toolkits usually contain ma...
Conversations are a useful means of structuring communicative interactions among agents. The value of a conversation-based approach is largely determined by the conversational mod...
R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Timothy W. Finin, Yannis L...