infonet-economy

The rapid expansion of Java programs into the software market is often not supported by a proper development methodology. We present a formal development methodology, well suited for Java dependable distributed applications. It is based on the stepwise refinement of model oriented formal specifications, and enables validation of the obtained system wrt the client's requirements...

Electronic documents may obviously no more be considered as a simple representation of their paper counterpart. They become dynamic components whose content may be modified accordingly to users interaction but also in reaction to modifications in the user's environment (such as an update operation in a database). They not only include data but also behavior (Scripts, Applets,...

The ABO project aims in the design and development an agent platform where mobile agents represent business processes. These agents encapsulate the policies, business practices and models of different business activities (like order management, payroll, warehouse and stock control). The aim of ABO is to provide a new paradigm of Business Information System design and use.

This paper presents a comparative survey of formalisms related to mobile agents. It describes the π-calculus and its extensions, the Ambient calculus, Petri nets, Actors, and the family of generative communication languages. Each of these formalisms defines a mathematical framework that can be used to reason about mobile code; they vary greatly in their expressiveness, in the...

The Java object oriented programming language has been the subject of an important involvement from programmers and the industry. Especially for applications related to the Web. The problem of such a rapid penetration of Java programs into commercial products is that software engineers do not have any methodology and have to develop complex parallel applications. We present a formal...

A Coordianted Atomic Action (CA Action) is a unified scheme for coordinating complex concurrent activities and supporting error recovery between multiple interacting objects in distributed object-oriented systems. They constitute a very interesting concept for the structured developement of fault-tolerant distributed applications. To formalize the design of CA actions, this paper...

The objective of this paper are twofold. On the one hand, it sims to show the advantages of Co-ordinated Atomic actions (CA actions) as a design concept for dependable distributed system development, and on the other hand, it explains how the formal language CO-OPN/2 can be used to express the semantics of CA action design. A fault-tolerant distributed application is developed...