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FAC
2010
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14 years 7 months ago
Atomic actions, and their refinements to isolated protocols
Inspired by the properties of the refinement development of the Mondex Electronic Purse, we view an isolated atomic action as a family of transitions with a common before-state, an...
Richard Banach, Gerhard Schellhorn
VLDB
2007
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Automating the Detection of Snapshot Isolation Anomalies
Snapshot isolation (SI) provides significantly improved concurrency over 2PL, allowing reads to be non-blocking. Unfortunately, it can also lead to non-serializable executions in ...
Sudhir Jorwekar, Alan Fekete, Krithi Ramamritham, ...
ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Aborting tasks in BDI agents
Intelligent agents that are intended to work in dynamic environments must be able to gracefully handle unsuccessful tasks and plans. In addition, such agents should be able to mak...
John Thangarajah, James Harland, David N. Morley, ...
EMSOFT
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A communication synthesis infrastructure for heterogeneous networked control systems and its application to building automation
In networked control systems the controller of a physicallydistributed plant is implemented as a collection of tightlyinteracting, concurrent processes running on a distributed ex...
Alessandro Pinto, Luca P. Carloni, Alberto L. Sang...
CASES
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Adapting compilation techniques to enhance the packing of instructions into registers
The architectural design of embedded systems is becoming increasingly idiosyncratic to meet varying constraints regarding energy consumption, code size, and execution time. Tradit...
Stephen Hines, David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson