Abstract. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed or evolving software. To formally define system archit...
—An increasing number of real-time systems are embedded in mission critical systems such as target tracking systems, in which workloads may dynamically vary, for example, dependi...
1 As distributed systems scale up and are deployed into increasingly sensitive settings, demand is rising for a new generation of communications middleware in support of applicati...
Ken Birman, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Danny Dolev, Tudo...
Service-oriented architectures (SOA) and, in particular, Web Services designs are currently widely used for the development of open, large-scale interoperable systems. In those sys...
We provide an algebraic formalisation of connectors in BIP. These are used to structure interactions in a component-based system. A connector relates a set of typed ports. Types a...