Unfoldings are a technique for verification of concurrent and distributed systems introduced by McMillan. The method constructs a finite complete prefix, which can be seen as a sym...
The management and query processing of one dimensional intervals is a special case of extended object handling. One dimensional intervals play an important role in temporal databa...
The design of distributed applications in a CORBA based environment can be carried out by means of an incremental approach, which starts from the specification and leads to the hi...
Verification that agent communication protocols have desirable properties or do not have undesirable properties is an important issue in agent systems where agents intend to commu...
Katie Atkinson, Roderic A. Girle, Peter McBurney, ...
In open multi-agent systems (MASs) we cannot assume agents to be developed in a centralized fashion. Recent proposals of commitmentbased communication frameworks aim at increasing ...