Contracts are behavioural descriptions of Web services. We devise a theory of contracts that formalises the compatibility of a client to a service, and the safe replacement of a s...
Abstract. We describe an approach to designing and implementing a distributed system as a family of related finite state machines, generated from a single abstract model. Various a...
Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Stuart J. Norcros...
Needs in the worldwide competition push teams to master more and more their design flow in order to minimize risks, costs, time to market, and potential liabilities. The classical...
Component-oriented and service-oriented approaches have gained a strong enthusiasm in industries and academia with a particular interest for service-oriented approaches. The servic...
Current web services are largely based on a synchronous request-response model that uses the Simple Object Access Protocol SOAP. Next-generation telecommunication networks, on the...
Maurice H. ter Beek, Stefania Gnesi, Franco Mazzan...