A description classifier organizes concepts and relations into a taxonomy based on the results of subsumption computations applied to pairs of relation definitions. Until now, des...
In this tutorial paper we present quantitative methods for analysing Web Services with the goal of understanding how they will perform under increased demand, or when asked to serv...
We give a formal account of a calculus for modeling service-based systems, suitable to describe both service composition (orchestration) and the protocol that services run when in...
Ivan Lanese, Francisco Martins, Vasco Thudichum Va...
This paper relates two different paradigms of descriptions of communication behaviour, one focussing on global message flows and another on end-point behaviours, using formal cal...
In this paper we consider updates that are specified as rules and consider simple knowledge bases consisting of ground atoms. We present a translation of the rule based update spe...