Model composition helps designers managing complexities by modeling different system views separately, and later compose them into an integrated model. In the past years, researche...
In today’s global village, it is critical that the key information tools, such as web search engines, e-Commerce portals and e-Governance, work across multiple natural languages,...
Object Petri nets (OPNs) provide a natural and modular method for modelling many real-world systems. We give a structure-preserving translation of OPNs to Prolog by encoding the O...
Active systems are emerging in many fields, being particularly interesting those like Active Database Management Systems which always provide some kind of reactive capabilities. I...
This paper describes a novel approach to fault-tolerance in distributed object-based systems. It uses the fragmented-object model to integrate replication mechanisms into distribut...