We introduce a new technique to solve exactly a discrete optimization problem, based on the paradigm of “negative” thinking. The motivation is that when searching the space of...
Evguenii I. Goldberg, Luca P. Carloni, Tiziano Vil...
Abstract: We present a new approach that uses compilerdirected fault-injection for coverage testing of recovery code in Internet services to evaluate their robustness to operating ...
Chen Fu, Richard P. Martin, Kiran Nagaraja, Thu D....
Runtime monitoring allows programmers to validate, for instance, the proper use of application interfaces. Given a property specification, a runtime monitor tracks appropriate run...
Newer Prolog implementations commonly offer support for multi-threading, and have also begun to offer support for tabling. However, most implementations do not yet integrate tablin...
We present and implement an infrastructure for automating the negotiation of business contracts. Underlying our system is a declarative language for both (1) fully-specified, exe...
Daniel M. Reeves, Michael P. Wellman, Benjamin N. ...