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WDAG
1993
Springer
98views Algorithms» more  WDAG 1993»
15 years 1 months ago
Fairness of N-party Synchronization and Its Implementation in a Distributed Environment
Fairness is an important concept in design and implementation of distributed systems. At the specification level, fairness usually serves as an assumption for proving liveness. At ...
Cheng Wu, Gregor von Bochmann, Ming Yu Yao
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
130views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Using probabilistic model checking in systems biology
Probabilistic model checking is a formal verification framework for systems which exhibit stochastic behaviour. It has been successfully applied to a wide range of domains, includ...
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David Parker
DNA
2009
Springer
145views Bioinformatics» more  DNA 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Distributed Agreement in Tile Self-assembly
Abstract. Laboratory investigations have shown that a formal theory of fault-tolerance will be essential to harness nanoscale self-assembly as a medium of computation. Several rese...
Aaron Sterling
HICSS
2003
IEEE
207views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
15 years 3 months ago
Formalizing Multi-Agent POMDP's in the context of network routing
This paper uses partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDP’s) as a basic framework for MultiAgent planning. We distinguish three perspectives: first one is that of a...
Bharaneedharan Rathnasabapathy, Piotr J. Gmytrasie...
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Formal semantics and communication strategies for proactive information delivery among team-based agents
Effective human teams often benefit from proactivity through members’ capability of anticipating different needs of teammates. In this paper, we focus on three issues related...
John Yen, Xiaocong Fan, Shuang Sun, Rui Wang, Cong...