In this paper, we propose the nevertrace claim, which is a new construct for specifying the correctness properties that either finite or infinite execution traces (i.e., sequence...
In a mobile computing system, caching data items at the mobile clients is important to reduce the data access delay in a unreliable and low bandwidth mobile network. However, effi...
Joe Chun-Hung Yuen, Edward Chan, Kam-yiu Lam, Hei-...
While quantitative probabilistic networks (QPNs) allow the expert to state influences between nodes in the network as influence signs, rather than conditional probabilities, infer...
We introduce a technique that can be used to model the behaviour of protocols. In our model each process within a protocol belongs to a particular class. A set of rules governs th...
There have been significant efforts in providing semantic descriptions for Web services, including the approach as exemplified by OWLS. Part of the semantic description in OWL-S is...