Over the last decade, the relevance of performance evaluation in the early stages of the software development life-cycle has been steadily rising. We honestly believe that the int...
In this paper we will concentrate on the conceptual modeling and semantics of service delegation and alignment in information systems. In delegation, one typically has the situatio...
Herman Balsters, G. B. Huitema, Nicolae B. Szirbik
We present a novel hybrid approach for performance analysis of a system design. Unlike other approaches in this area, in this paper we do not focus on the determination of pessimi...
Alexander Viehl, Markus Schwarz, Oliver Bringmann,...
Formal approaches to the design of interactive systems rely on reasoning about properties of the t a very high level of abstraction. Specifications to support such an approach typi...
Abstract. A stochastic extension of COWS is presented. First the formalism is given an operational semantics leading to finitely branching transition systems. Then its syntax and ...