A message flow is a sequence of messages sent among processors during the execution of a protocol, usually illustrated with something like a message sequence chart. Protocol design...
- Use offormal methods in any application scenario requires a precise characterization and representation of the properties that need to be verified The target, which is desired ri...
Electronic institutions are a formalism to define and analyse protocols among agents with a view to achieving global and individual goals. In this paper we propose a definition of ...
We consider the formal verification of the cache coherence protocol of the Stanford FLASH multiprocessor for N processors. The proof uses the SMV proof assistant, a proof system ba...
Recently, the development of distributed knowledge systems has become more attractive due to the existence of new social semantic applications such as semantic knowledge wikis. Us...