Contact processes describe the transmission of distinct properties of nodes via the links of a network. They provide a simple framework for many phenomena, such as epidemic spreadi...
To provide formal foundations to current (web) services technologies, we put forward using COWS, a process calculus for specifying, combining and analysing services, as a uniform ...
Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco T...
One of the challenges in designing distributed, embedded systems is the paucity of formal, executable specification notations that provide support for both real-time and asynchron...
Electronic argumentation support is increasingly important in today's networked society. Virtual research collaboration, e-business, and many other domains of professional li...
We extend the logical model of agency known as the KGP model, to support agents with normative concepts, based on the roles an agent plays and the obligations and prohibitions tha...