Abstract. The goal of ontology-based management is to improve the manageability of network resources through the application of formal ontologies. Prior research work has studied t...
This paper describes an approach for application specific conflict prevention based on model-driven refinement of policies prior to deployment. Central to the approach is an algori...
Abstract. The Mondex case study concerns the formal development and verification of an electronic purse protocol. Several groups have worked on its specification and mechanical ver...
Component-oriented software development is becoming more and more important for the production of large-scale software applications. Today's systems are constructed by combin...
The lazy caching algorithm of Afek, Brown, and Merrit (1993) is a protocol that allows the use of local caches with delayed updates. It results in a memory model that is not atomi...