Design by Contract (DbC) is widely acknowledged to be a powerful technique for creating reliable software. DbC allows developers to specify the behavior of an operation precisely ...
: Before any of the current “agile” development methods, Earned Value Management provided information for planning and controlling complex projects by measuring how much “val...
Cross-organizational workflow management is an essential ingredient for process integration in virtual enterprises. To obtain cross-organizational workflow processes with robust s...
This paper reports on the use of coordination contracts, presented at the previous two IWPSE workshops, in a project for a credit recovery company. We have designed and implemente...
Michel Wermelinger, Georgios Koutsoukos, Richard A...
We study an economic setting in which a principal motivates a team of strategic agents to exert costly effort toward the success of a joint project. The action taken by each agent...