In order to build complex, large-scale, dependable systems it is necessary to use a development environment with an integrated set of capabilities that supports editing and formal...
Lian Wen, Robert Colvin, Kai Lin, John Seagrott, N...
In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversati...
Abstract. Executable schema mappings between XML schemas are essential to support numerous data management tasks such as data exchange, data integration and schema evolution. The n...
Aspect-oriented concepts are currently introduced in all phases of the software development life cycle. However, the complexity of interactions among different aspects and between...
—For multiclass flow line models, we identify a class of service times that allow a decomposition of the system into subsets of servers called channels. In each channel, the cus...