— In publish/subscribe systems, users express their interests in specific items of information and get notified when relevant data items are produced. Such systems allow users ...
Recent years have seen increasing interest in systems that reason about and manipulate executable code. Such systems can generally benefit from information about aliasing. Unfort...
We provide a strategy to restructure transaction processing systems. Such systems are core assets of most modern business operations, so their enhancement is crucial. Before large...
Abstract. In this paper we investigate the specification and verification of information systems with an organizational structure. Such systems are modelled as a normative multia...
Leendert W. N. van der Torre, Joris Hulstijn, Mehd...
Many multi-agent systems seek to reconcile two apparently inconsistent constraints. The system’s overall objective is defined at a global level. However, the agents have only lo...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, John A. Saute...
— Healthcare and economic drivers have increased the desire to deploy systems for continuous monitoring of patients, both in hospital and outpatient settings. Such systems must o...
Stephen Strowes, Nagwa Badr, Steven Heeps, Emil Lu...
Dynamic adaptive systems are becoming increasingly popular due to their ability to adapt to heterogeneous and changing environments. Such systems must avert adverse feature intera...