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DAC
1996
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Methodology and Tools for State Encoding in Asynchronous Circuit Synthesis
This paper proposes a state encoding method for asynchronous circuits based on the theory of regions. A region in a Transition System is a set of states that "behave uniforml...
Jordi Cortadella, Michael Kishinevsky, Alex Kondra...
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Targeting Specific Distributions of Trajectories in MDPs
We define TTD-MDPs, a novel class of Markov decision processes where the traditional goal of an agent is changed from finding an optimal trajectory through a state space to realiz...
David L. Roberts, Mark J. Nelson, Charles Lee Isbe...
ER
2007
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
From Declarative to Imperative UML/OCL Operation Specifications
An information system maintains a representation of the state of the domain in its Information Base (IB). The state of the IB changes due to the execution of the operations defined...
Jordi Cabot
ICSE
1993
IEEE-ACM
13 years 9 months ago
"...And Nothing Else Changes": The Frame Problem in Procedure Specifications
We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter
KR
1992
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Conversational Events and Discourse State Change: A Preliminary Report
I argue that an action-based model of belief update is largely compatible with the proposals advanced in the literature on formal approaches to discourse interpretation, especiall...
Massimo Poesio