Abstract. In open and heterogeneous environments offered by the Internet, where agents are designed by different vendors, the development of standards for agent communication nee...
In this work, novel symbolic step encodings of the transition relation for object based communicating state machines are presented. This class of systems is tailored to capture the...
This paper addresses the problem of distributed resource allocation in general fork and join processing networks. The problem is motivated by the complicated processing requiremen...
Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao, Cathy H. Xia, Zhen Liu, Dona...
We introduce the idea of optimisation validation, which is to formally establish that an instance of an optimising transformation indeed improves with respect to some resource mea...
David Aspinall, Lennart Beringer, Alberto Momiglia...
In this paper we present a methodology and set of tools which assist the construction of applications from components, by separating the issues of transmission policy from compone...
Scott M. Walker, Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, ...