The formal specification of design patterns is widely recognised as being vital to their effective and correct use in software development. It can clarify the concepts underlying ...
Abstract. This paper presents a formal analysis of the device discovery phase of the Bluetooth wireless communication protocol. The performance of this process is the result of a c...
Marie Duflot, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman,...
Abstract. Nowadays, information systems have to perform in complex, heterogeneous environments, considering a variety of system users with different needs and preferences. Software...
Mirko Morandini, Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Ang...
Peer-to-peer systems, exchanging dynamic documents through Web services, are a simple and effective platform for data integration on the internet. Dynamic documents can contain b...
This paper argues that the agent-based simulation approach is just the one appropriate to the social sciences (including economics). Although there were many predecessor approache...