Recent work in behavioral animation has taken impressive steps towards a virtual human. As for intelligent virtual agents, abbreviated "IVAs", the behaviors displayed in ...
Business processes involve interactions among autonomous partners. We propose that these interactions be specified modularly as protocols. Protocols can be published, enabling imp...
Interface formalisms are able to model both the input requirements and the output behavior of system components; they support both bottom-up component-based design, and top-down de...
Luca de Alfaro, Leandro Dias da Silva, Marco Faell...
Dynamic composition of web services requires an automated step of contracting, i.e., the computation of a possibly fruitful interaction between two (or more) services, based on the...
Marco Alberti, Massimiliano Cattafi, Marco Gavanel...
Over the last 25 years, methods for supervisory control of discrete event systems and methods for submodule construction based on state machine specifications have been developed ...