By QoS (Quality of Service), we often refer to a set of quality requirements on the collective behavior of one or more objects. These requirements enable the provision of better se...
Component-based development has proven effective in many engineering domains, and several general component technologies are available. Most of these are focused on providing an e...
Abstract. Constraint automata have been used as an operational model for component connectors that coordinate the cooperation and communication of the components by means of a netw...
In this paper we present a general domain for the analysis of workflows and workflow components based on the notion of a collection of Turing machines sharing a set of tapes. We s...
We study a generative model in which hidden causes combine competitively to produce observations. Multiple active causes combine to determine the value of an observed variable thr...