We give a formal account of a calculus for modeling service-based systems, suitable to describe both service composition (orchestration) and the protocol that services run when in...
Ivan Lanese, Francisco Martins, Vasco Thudichum Va...
In this article, we propose to use the Discrete EVent system Specification (DEVS) formalism to describe and execute graph transformation control structures. We provide a short rev...
Complex Nominals (CNs) have simple syntactic structure that conceals non-trivial semantic characteristics. While speakers of natural languages combine noun(s)/adjective(s) with a h...
Complex software systems typically involve features like time, concurrency and probability, where probabilistic computations play an increasing role. It is challenging to formaliz...
Huibiao Zhu, Shengchao Qin, Jifeng He, Jonathan P....
For most users, authoring multimedia documents remains a complex task. One solution to deal with this problem is to provide template-based authoring tools but with the drawback of...