Discovery of suitable web services is a crucial task in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). In this work, we develop a novel approach to the discovery of geoprocessing services (WP...
Social reasoning theories, whilst studied extensively in the area of multiagent systems, are hard to implement directly in agents. They often specify properties of beliefs or behav...
Abstract— We present on-line tunable diagnostic and membership protocols for generic time-triggered (TT) systems to detect crashes, send/receive omission faults and network parti...
Abstract--Functional verification is one of the major bottlenecks in system-on-chip design due to the combined effects of increasing complexity and lack of automated techniques for...
Considering a broad definition for service contracts (beyond web services and software, e.g. airline tickets and insurance policies), we tackle the challenges of building a high ...