We study the implication that various timeliness and failure detector assumptions have on the performance of consensus algorithms that exploit them. We present a general framework...
This paper presents an approach to automated negotiation between agents which attempts to combine the advantages of a co-operative value adding approach, with the reality that neg...
Assessing reliability at early stages of software development, such as at the level of software architecture, is desirable and can provide a cost-effective way of improving a soft...
We propose a framework for the formal speci cation and veri cation of timed and hybrid systems. For timed systems we propose a speci cation language that refers to time only throug...
The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides a methodology for designing software systems by integrating loosely coupled services. Compared to traditional distributed object-o...
Ziyang Duan, Subhra Bose, Charles A. Shoniregun, P...