It is widely accepted in Distributed Artificial Intelligence that a crucial property of artificial agents is their autonomy. Whereas agent autonomy enables features of agent-base...
We present Bristlecone, a programming language for robust software systems. Bristlecone applications have two components: a high-level organization description that specifies how t...
Abstract. Despite more then 30 years of research on protocol specification, the major protocols deployed in the Internet, such as TCP, are described only in informal prose RFCs and...
A message flow is a sequence of messages sent among processors during the execution of a protocol, usually illustrated with something like a message sequence chart. Protocol design...
The dissemination of e-Business solutions among small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is still very low due to various reasons. In the course of the GENESIS project, we aim at ...