This paper compares the expressiveness of ambient calculi against different dialects of the pi-calculus. Cardelli and Gordon encoded the asynchronous pi-calculus into their calcul...
We describe the architecture and the implementation of the MIKADO software framework, that we call IMC (Implementing Mobile Calculi). The framework aims at providing the programmer...
Lorenzo Bettini, Rocco De Nicola, Daniele Falassi,...
A novel style of multi-agent system specification and deployment is described, in which familiar methods from computational logic are re-interpreted to a new context. One view of ...
We formally specify a payment protocol described in [Vogt et al., 2001]. This protocol is intended for fair exchange of time-sensitive data. Here the µCRL language is used to form...
In global computing applications the availability of a mechanism for some form of committed choice can be useful, and sometimes necessary. It can conveniently handle, e.g., distrib...