Web services are essentially black box components from a composer's or a mediator's perspective. The behavioural description of any service can be asserted by the compos...
Components allow to design applications in a modular way by enforcing a strong separation of concerns. In distributed systems this separation of concerns have to be composed with ...
The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from fault...
Mark d'Inverno, Michael Luck, Michael P. Georgeff,...
Logical formalisation of agent behaviour is desirable, not only in order to provide a clear semantics of agent-based systems, but also to provide the foundation for sophisticated r...
Nivea de Carvalho Ferreira, Michael Fisher, Wiebe ...
A translation of the Business Process Modeling Notation into the process calculus COWS is presented. The stochastic extension of COWS is then exploited to address quantitative reas...