Verification and compliance testing are required if agents are to be delegated responsibility for legally binding contracts, for example in electronic markets. This paper describes...
: The Open University's M880 Software Engineering is a postgraduate distance education course aimed at software professionals. The case study element of the course (approximat...
Network Control is currently carried out mainly by means of signalling protocols. Although these protocols are robust and facilitate standardisation, they present several drawback...
The specification and monitoring of conditional obligations and prohibitions with starting points and deadlines is a crucial aspect in the design of open interaction systems. In th...
For timing-driven or yield-driven designs, non-tree routing has become more and more popular and additional loops provide the redundant paths to protect against the effect of the ...