When designing a publicly available Web service, a service designer has to take care of costs and revenue caused by this services. In the very beginning possible partners might onl...
Abstract. At-most-once semantics is one of the standard models for object access in decentralized systems. Accessing an object, such as altering the state of the object by means of...
Sotiris Kentros, Aggelos Kiayias, Nicolas C. Nicol...
Information dissemination in electronic form has improved drastically over the past few years. New technologies in web feeds allow the uses to get notified automatically when new...
Cooperation logics have recently begun to attract attention within the multi-agent systems community. Using a cooperation logic, it is possible to represent and reason about the s...
A raw object is partially initialized, with only some fields set to legal values. It may violate its object invariants, such as that a given field is non-null. Programs often ma...