The need for sharing is well known in a large number of distributed applications. These applications are difficult to develop either for fully wired or mobile wireless networks. ...
In pervasive computing environments, changes in context may trigger changes in an individual’s access permissions. We contend that existing access control frameworks do not provi...
Adam J. Lee, Jodie P. Boyer, Chris Drexelius, Pras...
Control dominated embedded systems have to be designed for fast reaction to asynchronous external events occurring in the environment. Such systems must be able to perform signal ...
Partha S. Roop, Zoran A. Salcic, Morteza Biglari-A...
In order to model the behaviour of open concurrent systems by means of Petri nets, we introduce open Petri nets, a generalization of the ordinary model where some places, designate...
Paolo Baldan, Andrea Corradini, Hartmut Ehrig, Rei...
: We concentrate on two major aspects of reactive system design: behavior control and modularity. These are studied from a formal point of view, within the framework of action syst...