Abstract. Web services are increasingly used for building enterprise information systems according to the Service Oriented Architecture (Soa) paradigm. We propose in this paper a t...
Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) is a notation used in practice by protocol designers and system engineers. It is defined within an international standard (ITU Z120), and is also i...
We present a method for specifying temporal constraints on trajectories of dynamical systems and enforcing them during qualitative simulation. This capability can be used to focus...
In component-based software engineering, reconfiguration describes structural changes to the architecture of a component system. For stateful components, not only structural but a...
We add a limited but useful form of quantification to Coalition Logic, a popular formalism for reasoning about cooperation in game-like multi-agent systems. The basic constructs o...