Flow composition languages permit the construction of longrunning transactions from collections of independent, atomic services. Due to environmental limitations, such transaction...
Uncertain and complex environments demand that an agent be able to anticipate the actions of others in order to avoid resource conflicts with them and to realize its goals. Confli...
An activity consists of an actor performing a series of actions in a pre-defined temporal order. An action is an individual atomic unit of an activity. Different instances of the ...
Boolean games are a class of two-player games which may be defined via a Boolean form over a set of atomic actions. A particular game on some form is instantiated by partitioning ...
Designers of component-based software face two problems related to dealing with abnormal events: developing exception handling at the level of the integrated system and accommodat...