UML and MSC are widely used by software practitioners. SDL is an ITU standard language for telecommunications software specification. It has a formal semantics, and is supported b...
Building distributed systems is an inherently difficult and complex task. Modern middleware architectures assist developers ding abstractions that hide transport layer functionali...
Most applications developed today rely on a given middleware platform which governs the interaction between components, the access to resources, etc. To decide, which platform is ...
Abstract. Modern systems are heterogeneous, geographically distributed and highly dynamic since the communication topology can vary and the components can, at any moment, connect t...
Dan Hirsch, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Sebasti&aacut...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...