Distributed information systems are critical to the functioning of many businesses; designing them to be dependable is a challenging but important task. We report our experience i...
Jeremy Bryans, John S. Fitzgerald, Alexander Roman...
This paper presents general techniques for formally modeling, simulating, and model checking real-time resource-sharing protocols in Real-Time Maude. The “scheduling subset” o...
Abstract. A multi-party fair exchange protocol is a cryptographic protocol allowing several parties to exchange commodities in such a way that everyone gives an item away if and on...
Organizations depend on regular meetings to carry out their everyday tasks. When carried out successfully, meetings offer a common medium for participants to exchange ideas and mak...
Catholijn M. Jonker, Martijn C. Schut, Jan Treur, ...
We introduce here the notions of identity and unity as they have been discussed in Philosophy, and then provide additional clarifications needed to use these notions as fundamental...