— End-to-end throughput guarantee is an important service semantics that network providers would like to offer to their customers. A network provider can offer such service seman...
Discrete-event dynamic systems with feedback, where the behavior of the system depends on the system state, are difficult to model due to the uncertainties and dependencies of sys...
Behavioural protocols are beneficial to Component-Based Software Engineering and Service-Oriented Computing as they foster automatic procedures for discovery, composition, composi...
Abstraction is the key for effectively dealing with the state explosion in model-checking. Unfortunately, finding abstractions which are small and yet enable us to get conclusive ...
Abstract. A self-managed system is both self-assembling and selfhealing. Service-oriented Computing (SoC) architectures, such as a Web Services Architecture (WS-A) illustrate a hig...