In component software, the independence of components is achieved by separating their interfaces from implementations. The interface definition of a component serves as the contr...
Organizations in privacy-regulated industries (e.g. healthcare and financial institutions) face significant challenges when developing policies and systems that are properly align...
A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...
Abstract. Design by contract is a well known theory that views software construction as based on contracts between clients (callers) and suppliers (routines), relying on mutual obl...
Abstract. The formal development of industrial-size software is an errorprone and therefore an evolutionary process. Verifying formal specifications usually reveals hidden errors ...