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...
Contract and rights management – and thus property rights protection – has gained increasing importance as a quality standard in brokerage and electronic commerce environments...
Abstract. The specification and resolution of non-trivial domain constraints has become a well-recognised measure for improving the stability of large software systems. In this pa...
Stephan Herhut, Sven-Bodo Scholz, Robert Bernecky,...
This paper describes how the communication protocol of Mondex electronic purses can be specified and verified against desired security properties. The specification is developed by...
We present and implement an infrastructure for automating the negotiation of business contracts. Underlying our system is a declarative language for both (1) fully-specified, exe...
Daniel M. Reeves, Michael P. Wellman, Benjamin N. ...