Pervasive computing environments accommodate interconnected and communicating mobile devices. Mobility is a vital aspect of everyday life and technology must offer support for mov...
Sebastian Fischmeister, Guido Menkhaus, Alexander ...
The ability to proactively offer assistance promises to make personal agents more helpful to their users. We characterize the properties desired of proactive behaviour by a person...
Neil Yorke-Smith, Shahin Saadati, Karen L. Myers, ...
Symmetry reduction is an established method for limiting the amount of states that have to be checked during exhaustive model checking. The idea is to only verify a single represen...
Michael Leuschel, Michael J. Butler, Corinna Sperm...
The success of a business process (BP) depends on whether it meets its business goal as well as non-functional requirements associated with it. BP specifications frequently need to...
We provide an algebraic formalisation of connectors in BIP. These are used to structure interactions in a component-based system. A connector relates a set of typed ports. Types a...