We give a formal account of a calculus for modeling service-based systems, suitable to describe both service composition (orchestration) and the protocol that services run when in...
Ivan Lanese, Francisco Martins, Vasco Thudichum Va...
Interest-based negotiation (IBN) is a form of negotiation in which agents exchange information about their underlying goals, with a view to improving the likelihood and quality of ...
Iyad Rahwan, Philippe Pasquier, Liz Sonenberg, Fra...
A multi-party contract signing protocol allows a set of participants to exchange messages with each other with a view to arriving in a state in which each of them has a pre-agreed...
—Anonymous communication protocols must achieve two seemingly contradictory goals: privacy (informally, they must guarantee the anonymity of the parties that send/receive informa...
Probabilistic timed automata, a variant of timed automata extended with discrete probability distributions, is a specification formalism suitable for describing both nondeterminis...
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David Parker,...