In higher-order process calculi the values exchanged in communications may contain processes. A core calculus of higher-order concurrency is studied; it has only the operators nec...
A top-down query processing method for first order deductive databases under the disjunctive well-founded semantics (DWFS) is presented. The method is based upon a characterisation...
A contract specifies an interorganizational process together with a distribution of responsibilities for the activities among the parties involved. In this paper, we formally show ...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Niels Lohmann, Peter Mass...
This paper provides a technique, based on partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), for building automatic recovery controllers to guide distributed system recovery...
Kaustubh R. Joshi, William H. Sanders, Matti A. Hi...
This paper presents a novel technique called "universal guides" which explores inherent properties of logic grammars (changing variable binding status) in order to chara...