Abstract. A prominent source of complexity in the verification of ad hoc network (AHN) protocols is the fact that the number of network topologies grows exponentially with the squ...
: Modern society relies heavily on complex software systems for everyday activities. Dependability of these systems thus has become a critical feature that determines which product...
Conversations are a useful means of structuring communicative interactions among agents. The value of a conversation-based approach is largely determined by the conversational mod...
R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Timothy W. Finin, Yannis L...
Early information systems were mainly built around secondary, administrative processes of the value chain (e.g. accounting). But since the internet came into use, more and more pr...
When modelling a large and complex system, clarzty of the speczfication becomes an znaportant factor. I n object-oriented specification, the states of individual objects are captu...