We present a language for specifying web service interfaces. A web service interface puts three kinds of constraints on the users of the service. First, the interface specifies th...
Dirk Beyer, Arindam Chakrabarti, Thomas A. Henzing...
Fault-tolerant, replicated file systems are a crucial component of today's data centers. Despite their huge complexity, these systems are typically specified only in brief pr...
An intelligent agent will often be uncertain about various properties of its environment, and when acting in that environment it will frequently need to quantify its uncertainty. ...
Abstract. Current approaches to multi-agent interaction involve specifying protocols as sets of possible interactions, and hard-coding decision mechanisms into agent programs in or...
We present a general theory for the use of negative premises in the rules of Transition System Specifications (TSSs). We formulate a criterion that should be satisfied by a TSS in ...