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Comprehensive Monitor-Oriented Compensation Programming
Compensation programming is typically used in the programming of web service
compositions whose correct implementation is crucial due to their handling of
security-critical activities such as financial transactions. While traditional
exception handling depends on the state of the system at the moment of failure,
compensation programming is significantly more challenging and dynamic because
it is dependent on the runtime execution flow - with the history of behaviour
of the system at the moment of failure affecting how to apply compensation. To
address this dynamic element, we propose the use of runtime monitors to
facilitate compensation programming, with monitors enabling the modeller to be
able to implicitly reason in terms of the runtime control flow, thus separating
the concerns of system building and compensation modelling. Our approach is
instantiated into an architecture and shown to be applicable to a case study.Comment: In Proceedings FESCA 2014, arXiv:1404.043
Hermeneutics framework: integration of design rationale and optimizing software modules
To tackle the evolution challenges of adaptive systems, this paper argues on the necessity of hermeneutic approaches that help to avoid too early elimination of design alternatives. This visionary paper proposes the Hermeneutics Framework, which computationally integrates a design rationale management system, an auto-adaptive control system and a reflective and modular event-driven language runtime together. The Hermeneutics Framework is, among others, suitable for implementing dynamic adaptive software systems that undergo intensive evolution cycles
The Role of Deontic Logic in the Specification of Information Systems
In this paper we discuss the role that deontic logic plays in the specification of information systems, either because constraints on the systems directly concern norms or, and even more importantly, system constraints are considered ideal but violable (so-called `softÂż constraints).\ud
To overcome the traditional problems with deontic logic (the so-called paradoxes), we first state the importance of distinguishing between ought-to-be and ought-to-do constraints and next focus on the most severe paradox, the so-called Chisholm paradox, involving contrary-to-duty norms. We present a multi-modal extension of standard deontic logic (SDL) to represent the ought-to-be version of the Chisholm set properly. For the ought-to-do variant we employ a reduction to dynamic logic, and show how the Chisholm set can be treated adequately in this setting. Finally we discuss a way of integrating both ought-to-be and ought-to-do reasoning, enabling one to draw conclusions from ought-to-be constraints to ought-to-do ones, and show by an example the use(fulness) of this
Intensional Cyberforensics
This work focuses on the application of intensional logic to cyberforensic
analysis and its benefits and difficulties are compared with the
finite-state-automata approach. This work extends the use of the intensional
programming paradigm to the modeling and implementation of a cyberforensics
investigation process with backtracing of event reconstruction, in which
evidence is modeled by multidimensional hierarchical contexts, and proofs or
disproofs of claims are undertaken in an eductive manner of evaluation. This
approach is a practical, context-aware improvement over the finite state
automata (FSA) approach we have seen in previous work. As a base implementation
language model, we use in this approach a new dialect of the Lucid programming
language, called Forensic Lucid, and we focus on defining hierarchical contexts
based on intensional logic for the distributed evaluation of cyberforensic
expressions. We also augment the work with credibility factors surrounding
digital evidence and witness accounts, which have not been previously modeled.
The Forensic Lucid programming language, used for this intensional
cyberforensic analysis, formally presented through its syntax and operational
semantics. In large part, the language is based on its predecessor and
codecessor Lucid dialects, such as GIPL, Indexical Lucid, Lucx, Objective
Lucid, and JOOIP bound by the underlying intensional programming paradigm.Comment: 412 pages, 94 figures, 18 tables, 19 algorithms and listings; PhD
thesis; v2 corrects some typos and refs; also available on Spectrum at
http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/977460
Financial Information Mediation: A Case Study of Standards Integration for Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment Using the COIN Mediation Technology
Each player in the financial industry, each bank, stock exchange, government agency, or insurance company operates its own financial information system or systems.
By its very nature, financial information, like the money that it represents, changes hands. Therefore the interoperation of financial information systems is the cornerstone of the financial services they support. E-services frameworks such as web services are an unprecedented opportunity for the flexible interoperation of financial systems. Naturally the critical economic role and the complexity of financial information led to the development of various standards. Yet standards alone are not the panacea: different groups of players use different standards or different interpretations of the same standard.
We believe that the solution lies in the convergence of flexible E-services such as web-services and semantically rich meta-data as promised by the semantic Web; then a mediation architecture can be used for the documentation, identification, and resolution of semantic conflicts arising from the interoperation of heterogeneous financial services.
In this paper we illustrate the nature of the problem in the Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) industry and the viability of the solution we propose. We describe and analyze the integration of services using four different formats: the IFX, OFX and SWIFT standards, and an example proprietary format. To accomplish this integration we use the COntext INterchange (COIN) framework. The COIN architecture leverages a model of sources and receivers’ contexts in reference to a rich domain model or ontology for the description and resolution of semantic heterogeneity.Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA
Agents for educational games and simulations
This book consists mainly of revised papers that were presented at the Agents for Educational Games and Simulation (AEGS) workshop held on May 2, 2011, as part of the Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS) conference in Taipei, Taiwan. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers are organized topical sections on middleware applications, dialogues and learning, adaption and convergence, and agent applications
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