The coordination-policy that components interactions satisfied often determines the properties of nowadays component-based information systems, e.g. Safety, Liveness and Fairness ...
In this paper, we describe recent work in developing a peer-topeer collaborative environment. The study examines various locking mechanisms/policies by adjusting the granularity o...
Pocket computers are beginning to emerge that provide sufficient processing capability and memory capacity to run traditional desktop applications and operating systems on them. T...
Dirk Grunwald, Philip Levis, Keith I. Farkas, Char...
We propose a formal method to validate the reliability of a web application, by modeling interactions among its constituent objects. Modeling exploits the recent "Multiple Le...
Abstract. In this paper we explicitly model risk aversion in multiagent interactions. We propose an insurance mechanism that be can used by risk-averse agents to mitigate against r...