A formal model called CoAuto (Cooperative Automaton) is proposed ibe and analyze cooperative processes. A basic CoAuto abstracts the behaviors of a single active entity. It separat...
Two practical paradigms are presented, which facilitate domain concepts to be directly used to model business operations: the first paradigm is based on the business artifacts and...
Wei Zhao, Barrett R. Bryant, Fei Cao, Kamal Bhatta...
When XML documents are modeled as graphs, many challenging research issues arise. In particular, query processing for graphstructured XML data brings new challenges because traditi...
Hongzhi Wang, Wei Wang 0011, Xuemin Lin, Jianzhong...
Schur's transforms of a polynomial are used to count its roots in the unit disk. These are generalized them by introducing the sequence of symmetric sub-resultants of two pol...
A top-down approach for workflow design is proposed in the framework of Petri net theory. Simple but powerful refinement rules are proposed that guarantee soundness of the resultin...
Piotr Chrzastowski-Wachtel, Boualem Benatallah, Ra...