Abstract. The creation of distributed applications requires sophisticated compositions, as various components — supporting application logic or non-functional requirements — mu...
This paper argues that basing the semantics of concurrent systems on the notions of state and state transitions is neither advisable nor necessary. The tendency to do this is deepl...
We present a first approach that combines the mobile agent and the compositional paradigms into a new agent-based compositional model. The aim of this work is to explore the capabi...
Software systems are often model checked by translating them into a directly model-checkable formalism. Any serious software system requires application of compositional reasoning ...
The common vision of pervasive computing environments requires a very large range of devices and software components to interoperate seamlessly. From the assumption that these dev...