Expert systems (ESs) are complex information systems that are expensive to build and difficult to validate. Numerous knowledge representation strategies such as rules, semantic net...
Asynchronous method calls have been proposed to better integrate object orientation with distribution. In the Creol language, asynchronous method calls are combined with so-called...
Abstract Machine Describing Event Structure Composition Claudia Faggian and Mauro Piccolo 1 ,2 ,3 Dipartimento di Matematica Pura e Applicata – PPS Universit´a di Padova – Par...
— BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) as a de-facto standard for web service orchestration has drawn particularly attention from researchers and industries. BPEL is a semi...
In this paper, timed Petri nets are used to model and control hybrid systems. Petri nets are used instead of finite automata primarily because of the advantages they offer in de...
Xenofon D. Koutsoukos, Kevin X. He, Michael D. Lem...