Abstract. Design Patterns are now widely accepted as a useful concept for guiding and documenting the design of object-oriented software systems. Still the UML is ill-equipped for ...
In this paper we propose an extension of sequence kernels to the case where the symbols that define the sequences have multiple representations. This configuration occurs in natura...
We explore the power of relational semantics and equational reasoning in the style of Kleene algebra for analyzing programs with mutable, statically scoped local variables. We prov...
We describe a general decomposition mechanism to express the derivation relation of a word rewriting system R as the composition of a (regular) substitution followed by the derivat...
: This paper investigates the use of the Business Process Execution Language for Web services (BPEL4WS/ BPEL) for managing scientific workflows. The complexity, unpredictability an...