Abstract. We describe a denotational (game) semantics for a call-byvalue functional language with multiple threads of control, which may communicate values of general type on local...
Verification and compliance testing are required if agents are to be delegated responsibility for legally binding contracts, for example in electronic markets. This paper describes...
This paper describes a fault detection mechanism that uses the error codes returned by the stream sockets to locate process failures. Since these errors are generated automaticall...
Online dispute resolution is becoming the main method when dealing with a conflict in e-commerce. A family of defeasible reasoning patterns is used to provide a useful link betwee...
This paper presents and discusses some infrastructure services necessary for distributed applications development. The main service considered is the component search service whic...