If agents are to negotiate automatically with one another they must share a negotiation mechanism, specifying what possible actions each party can take at any given time, when nego...
Claudio Bartolini, Chris Preist, Nicholas R. Jenni...
Recently, several languages for web service composition have emerged (e.g., BPEL4WS and WSCI). The goal of these languages is to glue web services together in a process-oriented w...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H. M...
A standard notation, that unambiguously expresses different aspects of a system, is important to the process of software development. The expressiveness of a standard notation hel...
Satyajit Acharya, Hrushikesha Mohanty, R. K. Shyam...
Over the years, our group, led by Bob Balzer, designed and implemented three domain-specific languages for use by outside people in real situations. The first language described t...
This paper reports on the use of coordination contracts, presented at the previous two IWPSE workshops, in a project for a credit recovery company. We have designed and implemente...
Michel Wermelinger, Georgios Koutsoukos, Richard A...