In this paper, we consider various spatial relationships that are of general interest in pictorial database systems. We present a set of rules that allow us to deduce new relation...
The notion of belief has been useful in reasoning about authentication protocols. In this paper, we show how the notion of belief can be applied to reasoning about cache coherence...
Lily B. Mummert, Jeannette M. Wing, Mahadev Satyan...
Planning algorithms have traditionally been geared toward achievement goals in single-agent environments. Such algorithms essentially produce plans to reach one of a specified se...
The advent of emerging technologies such as Web services, service-oriented architecture, and cloud computing has enabled us to perform business services more efficiently and effect...
The problem of model checking threads interacting purely via the standard synchronization primitives is key for many concurrent program analyses, particularly dataflow analysis. U...