The feature interaction problem is prominent in telephone service development. Through a number of case studies, we have discovered that no single semantic framework is suitable f...
J. Paul Gibson, Geoff Hamilton, Dominique Mé...
This paper is devoted to the presentation of the RT-LOTOS formal description technique, which is a formalism suited for applications where concurrency, complex synchronization pat...
Jean-Pierre Courtiat, C. A. S. Santos, Christophe ...
Current workflow management technology does not provide adequate means for inter-workflow coordination as concurrently executing workflows are considered completely independent. W...
Despite many years of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) middleware research, deployment of such systems has not been widespread. We suggest this is in part because we lack a shared mo...
To achieve the multi-agent systems’ goals, agents interact to exchange information, to cooperate and to coordinate their tasks. Interaction is generally recognized as an importa...