The semantics of process calculi has traditionally been specified by labelled transition systems (LTS), but with the development of name calculi it turned out that reaction rules...
On-line transducers are an important class of computational agent; we construct and compose together many software systems using them, such as stream processors, layered network p...
As the IT industry is becoming more and more interested in service oriented business models and upcoming technologies like Web Services or Grid Computing, the need for automated c...
A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...
This chapter describes Hume: a functionally-based language for programming with bounded resource usage, including time and space properties. The purpose of the Hume language design...