Interacting State Machines (ISMs) are used to model reactive systems and to express and verify their properties. They can be seen both as automata exchanging messages simultaneousl...
Concurrent programming is a complex task, even with modern languages such as Java who provide languagebased support for multithreading and synchronization. In addition to typical ...
Protocols enable unambiguous, smooth interactions among agents. Commitments among agents are a powerful means of developing protocols. Commitments enable flexible execution of pro...
Abstract. Recently, a trend towards business processes in Business-toBusiness e-Commerce (B2B) is apparent. One of the most promising approaches is UN/CEFACT’s modeling methodolo...
Birgit Hofreiter, Christian Huemer, Werner Winiwar...
In this paper, we focus on mechanism design for single leader Stackelberg problems, which are a special case of hierarchical decision making problems in which a distinguished agent...