Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers keep extending with new features the computing infrastructures they offer on a pay per use basis. In this paper we explore reasons and...
A class of interval-based temporal languages for uniformly representing and reasoning about actions and plans is presented. Actions are represented by describing what is true whil...
Implicit invocation SN92, GN91] has become an important architectural style for large-scale system design and evolution. This paper addresses the lack of speci cation and veri cat...
Abstract. Constraint automata have been used as an operational model for component connectors that coordinate the cooperation and communication of the components by means of a netw...
Current object-oriented approaches to distributed programs may be criticized in several respects. First, method calls are generally synchronous, which leads to much waiting in dis...