On the design of application protocols
Marten J. Van Sinderen · 1995
On the Design of Application Protocols viii I am indebted to Luís Ferreira Pires for his contribution to the work on behaviour definition based on causality relations.This work resulted in many joint papers, which in turn were taken as the starting point for Chapters 5 and 6 of this thesis.I also like to thank Dick Quartel.He has been involved in many discussions on the subject of causality relations, and provided useful feedback through the elaboration of examples.I further like to thank the members of my discipline group, Application Protocol Systems (APS).Ing Widya, Robert Huis in 't Veld, and, recently, Andre van den Bos are responsible for a pleasant working environment.In addition, Ing Widya was kind enough to take over some of my tasks during periods in which the Ph.D. work prevented me from performing these.The Tele-Informatics and Open System (TIOS) research group has been, and still is, a stimulating multi-disciplinary environment with a pleasant working atmosphere.Joint sailing, skiing and bicycle trips contributed to this atmosphere, and should therefore be treasured as a tradition to be continued in the future.Especially, I like to thank Aiko Pras for the many sociable discussions and useless but amusing bets.Rom Langerak is gratefully acknowledged for providing additional motivation to continue the training of long distance runs.A Ph.D. thesis cannot be successfully completed without proper support of the home front.Klarie provided just the right mix of support and diversion that kept me aware of other things in life.Rutger and Maarten were so kind to leave me working with my own 'television set' for such a long time.