If agents are to negotiate automatically with one another they must share a negotiation mechanism, specifying what possible actions each party can take at any given time, when nego...
Claudio Bartolini, Chris Preist, Nicholas R. Jenni...
Recently, several languages for web service composition have emerged (e.g., BPEL4WS and WSCI). The goal of these languages is to glue web services together in a process-oriented w...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H. M...
This paper reports on the use of coordination contracts, presented at the previous two IWPSE workshops, in a project for a credit recovery company. We have designed and implemente...
Michel Wermelinger, Georgios Koutsoukos, Richard A...
In the design process of SoC (System on Chip), validation is one of the most critical and costly activity. The main problem for industrial companies like STMicroelectronics, stand...
Pierre Wodey, Geoffrey Camarroque, Fabrice Baray, ...
Problems with legal quality will not only increase effort and costs of the law enforcement organisations, but also undermines the regulating power of the legislator. Unintended us...