We study communication primitives for interaction between mobile agents. They can be classified into two groups. At a low level there are location dependent primitives that require...
Peter Sewell, Pawel T. Wojciechowski, Benjamin C. ...
WS-SecurityPolicy is a declarative language for configuring web services security mechanisms. We describe a formal semantics for WS-SecurityPolicy and propose a more abstract lang...
: Verifying design instead of code can be an effective and practical approach to obtaining verified software. This paper argues that proof scores are an attractive method for ver...
Kokichi Futatsugi, Joseph A. Goguen, Kazuhiro Ogat...
What EDI needs is a good semantics, that is, a workable formal theory of what EDI messages mean. As is widely recognized, the point applies to electronic commerce and to communica...
Inferences about speech acts are often conditional, nonmonotonic, and involve the issue of time. Most agent communication languages, however, ignore these issues, due to the dif...