Requirements from new types of applications call for new database system solutions. Computational science applications performing distributed computations on Grid networks with req...
By modeling dynamic join points, pointcuts, and advice in a defunctionalized continuation-passing style interpreter, we provide a fundamental account of these AOP mechanisms. Dyna...
Current workflow management systems (WFMSs) are only applicable in a reliable and secure manner, if the business process (BP) to be supported is wellstructured. As ad hoc deviatio...
There has been significant recent interest in exploring the role of coordination languages as middleware for distributed systems. These languages provide operations that allow pro...
Abstract. This paper presents a new version of the CL contract specification language. CL combines deontic logic with propositional dynamic logic but it applies the modalities exc...