Interaction protocols are specific, often standard, constraints on the behaviors of autonomous agents in a multiagent system. Protocols are essential to the functioning of open sys...
: This paper presents a qualitative shape description scheme which has been defined in order to have a formal theory to allow the construction of new shapes from a set of given sha...
Workflow management systems guide and monitor tasks performed by humans and computers. The workflow specifications are usually expressed in special purpose (graphical) formalisms....
Jan Martin Jansen, Rinus Plasmeijer, Pieter W. M. ...
In this paper, we explore some of the new opportunities for distributed collaborative applications that emerge from the use of XML as a data specification language. We present two...
The complex interactions appearing in service-oriented computing make coordination a key concern in serviceoriented systems. In this paper, we present a fault-based method to gene...
Bernhard K. Aichernig, Farhad Arbab, Lacramioara A...