Web services (WS) provide a technology for integrating applications over the Internet. This paper proposes a multi-agent conceptual model of WS and an agent-oriented modelling and...
The perfectly synchronized round model provides the abstraction of crash-stop failures with atomic message delivery. This abstraction makes distributed programming very easy. We p...
Increased performance is the key reason for developing software with virtual teams but the research efforts to date are limited. Difficulties for a formal, generic approach are mul...
Using model-based development has shown to increase efficiency and effectiveness of software production. However, with software as an integral part of products with customized fu...
We consider a class of component-based software models with interaction style of buffered asynchronous message passing between components with ports, represented by UML-RT. After ...