In the domain of desktop software, design patterns have had a profound impact; they are applied ubiquitously across a broad range of applications. Patterns serve both to promulgat...
Sally K. Wahba, Jason O. Hallstrom, Neelam Soundar...
: The idea of developing software through systematic development processes to improve software quality is not new. Nevertheless, there are still many information systems such as th...
We present an encoding that is able to specify LTL bounded model checking problems within the Bernays-Sch?onfinkel fragment of first-order logic. This fragment, which also correspo...
The coordination-policy that components interactions satisfied often determines the properties of nowadays component-based information systems, e.g. Safety, Liveness and Fairness ...
We address the problem of standardising the semantics of agent communication. The diversity of existing approaches suggests that no single agent communication language can satisfa...