We describe an incomplete but sound and efficient livelock freedom test for infinite state asynchronous reactive systems. The method s a system into a set of simple control flow cy...
Abstract. Engineering workflow applications are becoming more and more complex, involving numerous interacting business objects within considerable processes. Analysing the interac...
In this work we discuss a number of issues for the design of hypertext systems in an actor-based model of computation. We examine how the "traditional" basic concepts whi...
Autonomic computing has been proposed recently as a way to address the difficult management of applications whose complexity is constantly increasing. Autonomous applications will ...
Large-scale, value-added Internet services composed of independent cooperating or competing services will soon become common place. Several groups have addressed the performance, c...