We study mechanisms that can be modelled as coalitional games with transferable utilities, and apply ideas from mechanism design and game theory to problems arising in a network d...
The rapid growth of the Web has made it possible to build collaborative applications on an unprecedented scale. However, the request-reply interaction model of HTTP limits the rang...
Constraint management plays an important role in design applications where constraints re ect design restrictions and design decisions. ECA rules are a widely used mechanism to enf...
Crowdsourcing is emerging as a wellspring of creative designs. This paper examines the mechanisms that support collective design. A sequential combination system is described: one ...
We propose the use of formal languages of infinite words over the alphabet of task identifiers as an interface between control designs and software implementations. We argue that...