This paper presents a formal language for the design of component-based enterprise system. The language (StAC) allows the usual parallel and sequential behaviours, but most signifi...
The k-server problem is one of the most fundamental online problems. The problem is to schedule k mobile servers to visit a sequence of points in a metric space with minimum total...
Abstract. Block codes are first viewed as finite state automata represented as trellises. A technique termed subtrellis overlaying is introduced with the object of reducing decoder...
We prove that several global properties (global convergence, global asymptotic stability, mortality, and nilpotence) of particular classes of discrete time dynamical systems are un...
Vincent D. Blondel, Olivier Bournez, Pascal Koiran...