Abstract. Business Process Management (BPM) includes methods, techniques, and tools to support the design, enactment, management, and analysis of operational business processes. It...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede...
Abstract. The concept of software architecture has created a new scenario for incorporating non-functional and transactional requirements into the software design. Transactional an...
Nelson S. Rosa, George R. Ribeiro-Justo, P. R. F. ...
The ability to communicate is one of the salient properties of agents. Although a number of agent communication languages (ACLs) have been developed, obtaining a suitable formal se...
We define an operational semantics for the Signal language and design an analysis which allows to verify properties pertaining to the relation between values of the numeric and bo...
We give an informal analysis and critique of several typical “provable security” results. In some cases there are intuitive but convincing arguments for rejecting the conclusi...