Increasingly, distributed systems are being constructed by composing a number of discrete components. This practice, termed composition, is particularly prevalent within the Web s...
We propose a formal definition of a pervasive service model targeting the very dynamic environments typical of mobile application scenarios. The model is based on a requirement an...
—Collaborative mechanisms between services are a crucial aspect in the recent development of pervasive computing systems based on the paradigm of service-oriented architecture. C...
—In this paper we present a compositional and dynamic model for face aging. The compositional model represents faces in each age group by a hierarchical And-Or graph, in which An...
Jin-Li Suo, Song Chun Zhu, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Ch...
We define a compositional operational semantics for state machines and their composition in UML. Each state machine describes the behavior of an object of a class. If a class of a...
Harald Fecher, Marcel Kyas, Willem P. de Roever, F...