We describe a language which can be used to model business processes (both technical and nontechnical). It has a formal semantics, so as to enable formal analysis and prediction o...
In this paper we describe a channel-based exogenous coordination language, called Reo, and discuss its application to multi-agent systems. Reo supports a specific notion of compo...
Web services offer a number of valuable features towards supporting the development of open distributed systems, built out of the composition of autonomous services. Nonetheless, ...
Connectors have emerged as a powerful concept for composition and coordination of concurrent activities encapsulated as components and services. Compositional coordination models a...
Farhad Arbab, Tom Chothia, Sun Meng, Young-Joo Moo...
The definitions of the basic concepts, rules, and constraints of centering theory involve underspecified notions such as `previous utterance', `realization', and `rankin...