— The paper proposes a more formalized definition of UML 2.0 Activity Diagram semantics. A subset of activity diagram constructs relevant for business process modeling is conside...
This article describes a mathematical framework for characterizing cooperativity in complex systems subject to evolutionary pressures. This framework uses three foundational compo...
Abstract. A central issue in autonomic management is how to coordinate several autonomic management processes, which is assumed to require significant knowledge exchange. This stu...
This paper aims at pushing the clear relationship between software service composition and chemical dynamics a step forward. We developed a coordination model where services and c...
We present a novel message passing algorithm for approximating the MAP problem in graphical models. The algorithm is similar in structure to max-product but unlike max-product it ...