Complex systems consist of a large number of entities with their independent local rules and goals, along with their interactions. The effect of these properties tends to produce ...
Yongchang Li, Michael Balchanos, Bassem Nairouz, N...
This paper presents a framework to specify and verify integrated services of a home network system (HNS). We first develop a modeling language to describe the HNS and the integra...
Abstract. This paper proposes a new model of communication in multiagent systems according to which the semantics of communication depends on their pragmatics. Since these pragmati...
Michael Rovatsos, Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Wei&sz...
As the size of distributed systems keeps growing, the peer to peer communication paradigm has been identified as the key to scalability. Peer to peer overlay networks are charact...
Erwan Le Merrer, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Laurent Mas...
We introduce a typed variant of Safe Ambients, named Secure Safe Ambients (SSA), whose type system allows behavioral invariants of ambients to be expressed and verified. The most ...