Abstract. In this paper, we consider the process algebra ACPL, which models the basics of agent communication. This algebra combines the informationprocessing aspects of Concurrent...
Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van de...
The Business Process Execution Language BPEL4WS has emerged to introduce process dimension in Web Services coordination. At the same time, a lot of needs related to business proces...
Reliability is a critical issue in many multi-organizational distributed applications, be they web services, financial protocols, scientific computing infrastructure, and software ...
Laura Bocchi, Kohei Honda, Emilio Tuosto, Nobuko Y...
Hereditary Repulsion (HR) is a selection method coupled with a fitness constraint that substantially improves the performance and consistency of evolutionary algorithms. This als...
Mediator systems integrate distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous data sources, but their e ective use requires the solution of hard query optimization problems. This is usuall...