— All large vendors of standard business software have announced to move to service oriented architecture. They claim benefits for their customers with regard to agility and ope...
Abstract. In this paper we propose a new role for the agent metaphor in the definition of the organizational structure of multiagent systems. The agent metaphor is extended to cons...
Of special interest in formal verification are safety properties, which assert that the system always stays within some allowed region. Each safety property can be associated with...
Increasing sizes of present-day distributed software systems call for coordination models which are both modular and scalable. Precise modelling of real-life applications further r...
In an industrial fabrication shop, such as pipe spool and steel fabrication, a product usually travels in the system in the form of raw materials or components of the product. Dur...