—“Autonomic systems” merge advancements in the field of multi-agent software design, dynamic analysis, and decentralized control in order to assist designers in constructing...
Abstract. While past research in service oriented computing has focused on the fairly static functional description and the operators of services the dynamic and flexible compositi...
In this paper, we present a framework for formal modeling and verification of service-based business processes with focus on their compliance to external regulations such as Segreg...
We present a proof-technique for reducing the nondeterminbstract agent specifications in a BDI framework by means of refinement. We implement the operational semantics of agent sp...
This paper introduces the Simulation Architecture Description Language (SADL) developed at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center to...