In the 1980s process algebras became widely accepted formalisms for describing and analysing concurrency. Extensions of the formalisms, incorporating some aspects of systems which...
The aim of this paper is to introduce a modelling concept and structuring principle for rule-based systems the semantics of which is not restricted to a sequential behavior, but ca...
Reconciliating divergent data is an important issue in concurrent engineering, mobile computing and software configuration management. Currently, a lot of synchronizers or merge ...
— While planning the execution of report-generation workloads, database administrators often need to know how long different query workloads will take to run. Database systems ru...
In this paper, we describe a framework to program open societies of concurrently operating agents. The agents maintain a subjective theory about their environment and interact with...
Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van de...