The development of intelligent assistants has largely benefited from the adoption of decision-theoretic (DT) approaches that enable an agent to reason and account for the uncertai...
Bowen Hui, Sean Gustafson, Pourang Irani, Craig Bo...
High-level formalisms such as stochastic Petri nets can be used to model complex systems. Analysis of logical and numerical properties of these models often requires the generatio...
Gianfranco Ciardo, Joshua Gluckman, David M. Nicol
Many testing and analysis techniques use finite state models to validate and verify the quality of software systems. Since the specification of such models is complex and timecons...
In recent years, malicious software (malware) has become one of the most insidious threats in computer security. However, this is arguably not the result of increased sophisticati...
According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...