One of the ways to model contraction functions for belief sets is epistemic entrenchment. The first step was provided by G¨ardenfors in [5], who defined epistemic entrenchment ...
Service Oriented Architectures draw heavily on techniques for reusing and assembling off-the-shelf software components. While powerful, this programming practice is not without a ...
Giovanni Bernardi, Michele Bugliesi, Damiano Maced...
— Web services orchestrations and choreographies require establishing Quality of Service (QoS) contracts with the user. This is achieved by performing QoS composition, based on c...
Sidney Rosario, Albert Benveniste, Stefan Haar, Cl...
Abstract. Many software applications are based on collaborating, yet competing, agents or virtual organisations exchanging services. Contracts, expressing obligations, permissions ...
Abstract. It is generally agreed that one of the key services of componentbased systems are transactions. However, an agreement on how components should be involved in transactions...