Concurrent Time-stamp Systems (ctss) allow processes to temporally order concurrent events in an asynchronous shared memorysystem, a powerful tool for concurrency control, serving...
Two main Rights Expression Languages (RELs) exist to describe licenses governing the access to digital content: ODRL (Open Digital Rights Language) and MPEG-21 REL. Both RELs are ...
A multi-party contract signing protocol allows a set of participants to exchange messages with each other with a view to arriving in a state in which each of them has a pre-agreed...
Citations and related work are crucial in any research to position the work and to build on the work of others. A high citation count is an indication of the influence of speci...
The safety of infinite state systems can be checked by a backward reachability procedure. For certain classes of systems, it is possible to prove the termination of the procedure ...