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IFM
2009
Springer
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Challenges in the Specification of Full Contracts
Abstract. The complete specification of full contracts -- contracts which include tolerated exceptions, and which enable reasoning about the contracts themselves, can be achieved u...
Gordon J. Pace, Gerardo Schneider
ICTAC
2009
Springer
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Automatic Conflict Detection on Contracts
Abstract. Many software applications are based on collaborating, yet competing, agents or virtual organisations exchanging services. Contracts, expressing obligations, permissions ...
Stephen Fenech, Gordon J. Pace, Gerardo Schneider
DLS
2009
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Contracts for first-class modules
Behavioral software contracts express properties concerning the flow of values across component (modules, classes, etc) interfaces. These properties are often beyond the reach of ...
T. Stephen Strickland, Matthias Felleisen
MANSCI
2007
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Implications of Renegotiation for Optimal Contract Flexibility and Investment
After entering into supply contracts, firms often later renegotiate the terms of those contracts. For example, firms that obtain market demand information after signing supply c...
Erica L. Plambeck, Terry A. Taylor
MANSCI
2007
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Performance Contracting in After-Sales Service Supply Chains
Performance-based contracting is reshaping service support supply chains in capital intensive industries such as aerospace and defense. Known as Power by the Hour in the private s...
Sang-Hyun Kim, Morris A. Cohen, Serguei Netessine
TSC
2008
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Probabilistic QoS and Soft Contracts for Transaction-Based Web Services Orchestrations
Service level agreements (SLAs), or contracts, have an important role in web services. These contracts define the obligations and rights between the provider of a web service and i...
Sidney Rosario, Albert Benveniste, Stefan Haar, Cl...
JFP
2006
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Sound and complete models of contracts
Even in statically typed languages it is useful to have certain invariants checked dynamically. Findler and Felleisen gave an algorithm for dynamically checking expressive highero...
Matthias Blume, David A. McAllester
JUCS
2008
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Dynamic Bandwidth Pricing: Provision Cost, Market Size, Effective Bandwidths and Price Games
Abstract: Nowadays, in the markets of broadband access services, traditional contracts are of "static" type. Customers buy the right to use a specific amount of resources...
Sergios Soursos, Costas Courcoubetis, Richard R. W...
FUIN
2008
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A Foundational Theory of Contracts for Multi-party Service Composition
Abstract. In the context of Service Oriented Computing, contracts are descriptions of the observable message-passing behavior of services. Contracts have been already successfully ...
Mario Bravetti, Gianluigi Zavattaro
COORDINATION
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Behavioural Contracts with Request-Response Operations
In the context of service-oriented computing, behavioural contracts are descriptions of the message-passing behaviour of services. They can be used to check properties of service c...
Lucia Acciai, Michele Boreale, Gianluigi Zavattaro