Quality of Communication-Based Systems

Contributions to Quality from Specification Techniques.- Abstract Datatype Semantics for Algebraic High-Level Nets Using Dynamic Abstract Datatypes.- Making Statics Dynamic: Towards an Axiomatization for Dynamic ADTs.- Specification of Concurrent Systems: from Petri Nets to Graph Grammars.- Towards a Theory of Strong Bisimulation for the Service Rendezvous.- Contributions to Quality from Quantitative Modelling.- Transient Analysis of Real-Time Systems Using Deterministic and Stochastic Petri Nets.- Performance Modeling with Structured Actions.- Transient Analysis of Deterministic and Stochastic Petri Nets by the Method of Supplementary Variables.- Discrete Time Deterministic and Stochastic Petri Nets.- Contributions to Quality from Distributed Systems Organization.- Bauhaus Linda: An Overview.- Naming and Typing in Languages for Coordination in Open Distributed System.- An Efficient Implementation of Decoupled Communication in Distributed Environments.- Extending the Rôle of Object References in Distributed Systems.- On Protocols for Loss-less Statistical Multiplexing in Integrated Networks.