A critical resource in a distributed real-time system is its shared communication medium. Unrestrained concurrent access to the network can lead to collisions that reduce the syst...
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Abstract. Behavioral specifications that are integrated into component interfaces are an important means for the correct construction of component-based systems. Currently, such s...
A conversation is the global sequence of messages exchanged among the components of a distributed system. Conversations provide a promising model for specifying and analyzing the ...
Web Service Technology has been developing rapidly as it provides a flexible application-to-application interaction mechanism. Several ongoing research efforts focus on various as...