Abstract--The automation of policy refinement, whilst promising great benefits for policy-based management, has hitherto received relatively little treatment in the literature, wit...
Robert Craven, Jorge Lobo, Emil C. Lupu, Alessandr...
We propose a new look at one of the most fundamental types of behavioral interfaces: discrete time specifications of communication--directly related to the work of de Alfaro and H...
Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Ulrik Nyman, Andrzej Wasows...
Population protocols are an elegant model recently introduced for distributed algorithms running in large and unreliable networks of tiny mobile agents. Correctness proofs of such...
In distributed scenarios the robustness of a reputation mechanism depends on the data available for computation. Especially in ad-hoc networks the amount of available data is rest...
Abstract. Service Oriented Computing (SOC) allows for the composition of services which communicate using unidirectional notification or bidirectional request-response primitives....
Claudio Guidi, Ivan Lanese, Fabrizio Montesi, Gian...