Abstract. Many formalisms use interleaving to model concurrency. To describe some system behaviours appropriately, we need to limit interleaving. For example, in a component-based ...
Shahram Esmaeilsabzali, Nancy A. Day, Farhad Mavad...
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...
Design patterns document good design solutions to a recurring problem in a particular context. They are typically modeled using UML. In practice, however, pattern-related informat...
The home network system (HNS, for short) is comprised of networked home appliances, which achieves various value-added services for home users. Assuring safety of the HNS and the ...
Current problems in Business Process Management consist of terminology mismatches and unstructured and isolated knowledge representation in process models. Semantic Business Proces...