We typically think of documents as carrying information. However, certain kinds of documents do more than that: they are not only informative but also performative in that they re...
Abstract: The abstract syntax and static semantics of UML, the widely-used generalpurpose graphical modeling language, have been standardized in a four-layer metamodeling framework...
: Ensuring composite services reliability is a challenging problem. Indeed, due to the inherent autonomy and heterogeneity of Web services it is difficult to predict and reason abo...
In cryptography, there has been tremendous success in building primitives out of homomorphic semantically-secure encryption schemes, using homomorphic properties in a blackbox way...
Abstract. Collective phenomena and their associated movement patterns are ubiquitous in everyday life. However, even though we need to be able to reason about these phenomena, espe...