maintain awareness of its environment for a long period of time. Additionally, knowledge-intensive agents must be engineered such that their knowledge can be easily updated as envi...
In model based design model fragments are used in everyday work. Concurrent operations on separate parts of a model and communication between stakeholders are some examples. Howeve...
This paper presents a discussion on Grids merging with the economy. Until now no clear notion and categorization exist in this area. Problem formulations of “economy grid” proj...
We outline and clarify the essential concepts of the componentware paradigm. After motivating the role of formal foundations and introducing a number of useful description techniq...
Klaus Bergner, Andreas Rausch, Marc Sihling, Alexa...
In this paper we study the issue of progress for distributed timed systems modeled as the parallel composition of timed automata. We clarify the requirements of discrete progress (...