Abstract. Agent-oriented methodologies are an important means for constructing agent-based systems in a controlled repeatable form. However, agent-oriented methodologies have not r...
Abstract. The conceptual modelling of software architectures is of central importance for the quality of a software system. A rich modelling language is required to integrate the d...
Abstract In this doctoral work we aim at developing a rich timed concurrent constraint (tcc) based language with strong ties to logic. The new calculus called Universal Timed Concu...
Carlos Olarte, Catuscia Palamidessi, Frank Valenci...
In this paper we present a new form of revocable lock that streamlines the construction of higher level concurrency abstractions such as atomic multi-word heap updates. The key id...
Hybrid algorithms combining local and systematic search often use nondeterminism in fundamentally different ways. They may differ in the strategy to explore the search tree and/o...