Publish/subscribe (pub/sub) middleware platforms for eventbased distributed systems often provide many configurable policies that affect end-to-end quality of service (QoS). Altho...
Joe Hoffert, Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha S. Gokh...
We propose a small extension of the ERLANG language that allows programmers to specify contracts with type information at the level of individual functions. Such contracts are opt...
Miguel Jimenez, Tobias Lindahl, Konstantinos F. Sa...
We describe a simple scheme for mapping synchronous language models, in the form of Boolean Mealy Machines, into timed automata. The mapping captures certain idealized implementat...
This paper describes an authoring language for specifying communicative behavior and interaction of agents in virtual worlds. We focus on the popular three-dimensional (3D) multi-...
Sebastian Ullrich, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishi...
Software systems are becoming more and more complex with a large number of interacting partners often distributed over a network. A common dilemma faced by software engineers in b...