We introduce COWS (Calculus for Orchestration of Web Services), a new foundational language for SOC whose design has been influenced by WS-BPEL, the de facto standard language for...
Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco T...
Abstract. The Object Constraint Language OCL offers a formal notation for constraining the modelling elements occurring in UML diagrams. In this paper we apply OCL for developing ...
The ability to reason about action and change has long been considered a necessary component for any intelligent system. Many proposals have been offered in the past to deal with ...
Steven Shapiro, Maurice Pagnucco, Yves Lespé...
Abstract. Using higher-order functions is standard practice in functional programming, but most functional logic programming languages that have been described in the literature la...
This paper is a proposal for a new two-tier calculus, designed to model aspects of CORBA-like systems at the CORBA evel. The higher object level known as Oompa abstracts away from...
Malcolm Tyrrell, Andrew Butterfield, Alexis Donnel...