Transformational design integrates design and verification. It combines "correctness by construciion" and design creativity by the use ofpre-proven behaviour preserving ...
Formal specifications of protocol-oriented agent interactions have focused mainly on the semantics of the constituent agent communication language (ACL). We argue that a proper th...
Recently, enterprise interoperability has been improved by the Web Service technology, making available an ever-growing number of services. Service discovery is considered a crucia...
Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Me...
Abstract. This paper develops a highly expressive semantic framework for program refinement that supports both temporal reasoning and reasoning about the knowledge of a single agen...
We describe a language which can be used to model business processes (both technical and nontechnical). It has a formal semantics, so as to enable formal analysis and prediction o...