We specify the black box behavior of dataflow components by characterizing the relation between their input and their output histories. We distinguish between three main classes of...
It is essential for security to be able to isolate mistrusting programs from one another, and to protect the host platform from programs. Isolation is difficult in object-oriented...
Ontology alignment is regarded as one of the core tasks in many Web services. It is concerned with finding the correspondences between separate ontologies by identifying concepts ...
We present a new formulation of distributed task assignment, called Generalized Mutual Assignment Problem (GMAP), which is derived from an NP-hard combinatorial optimization probl...
State based protocols are protocols in which the handling of one message depends on the contents of previous messages. Testing such protocols, for security or for other purposes u...