Simple retrenchment is briefly reviewed in the B language of J.-R. Abrial [1] as a liberalisation of classical refinement, for the formal description of application developments ...
Abstract. Quantitative analysis of quality-of-service metrics is an important tool in early evaluation of service provision. This analysis depends on being able to estimate the ave...
We present a first-order extension of the algebraic theory about processes known as ACP and its main models. Useful predicates on processes, such as deadlock freedom and determini...
Two models for gene assembly in ciliates have been proposed and investigated in the last few years. The DNA manipulations postulated in the two models are very different: one mode...
We introduce a formal model for deployment and hosting of a dynamic grid service wherein the service provider must pay a resource provider for the use of computational resources. ...