This paper generalises the theory of agent refinement from [1] to multi-agent systems in the presence of new coordination mechanisms extended with real time. The generalisation is ...
Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Frank S. de Boer, Mehdi D...
Abstract: The paper discusses the usability concept of workflow services for eventdriven process chains. Usability is similar to controllability, known from Workflow net based BPEL...
The focus of this paper are actions in which agents employ instruments in order to achieve desired outcomes. I explore the ontological structure of such actions and the semantic fe...
Active systems are emerging in many fields, being particularly interesting those like Active Database Management Systems which always provide some kind of reactive capabilities. I...
Over the last decade a wide range of publish/subscribe (pub/ sub) systems have come out of the research community. However, there is little consensus on a common pub/sub API, whic...
Peter R. Pietzuch, David M. Eyers, Samuel Kounev, ...