The application designers can usually define their own "virtual environments" by selecting the appropriate computing resources required, or reuse and compose existing en...
Abstract. In grid-based scientific applications, building a workflow essentially involves composing parameterized services describing families of services and then configuring the ...
Mathieu Acher, Philippe Collet, Philippe Lahire, R...
The omnipresent integration of computer technology in everyday applications introduces new opportunities to make software systems aware of the context in which they are used. Such...
SLABS is a formal specification language designed for modular and composable specification of multi-agent systems. This paper reports our attempts to support SLABS at the level ...
The concept of a transaction, highly significant in the context of data bases, is broadened to make it refer to any atomic operation that changes the state of a software system or...