— This paper deals with the tracking problem for constrained linear systems using a model predictive control (MPC) law. As it is well known, MPC provides a control law suitable f...
Abstract. In a service-oriented world, a long-running business process can be implemented as a set of stateful services that represent the individual but coordinated steps that mak...
Surya Nepal, Alan Fekete, Paul Greenfield, Julian ...
As software systems grow in size and use more third-party libraries and frameworks, the need for developers to understand unfamiliar large codebases is rapidly increasing. In this...
Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...
Many authorization system models include some notion of obligation. Little attention has been given to user obligations that depend on and affect authorizations. However, to be u...
Murillo Pontual, Omar Chowdhury, William H. Winsbo...