Abstract. Commitments are a powerful abstraction for representing the interactions between agents. Commitments capture the content of the interactions declaratively and allow agent...
Abstract--Driven by the need to provision resources on demand, scientists are turning to commercial and research test-bed Cloud computing resources to run their scientific experime...
Abstract--Real-time systems are subject to temporal constraints and require a schedulability analysis to ensure that task execution finishes within lower and upper specified bounds...
Abstract. Algorithmic skeletons are a well-known approach for implementing parallel and distributed applications. Declarative versions typically use higher-order functions in funct...
Abstract. Aggressive optimization of programs often relies on analysis and transformation that cuts across the natural abstraction boundaries of the source programming language, su...