—A variety of partial modeling formalisms, aimed re and reason about abstractions, have been proposed. Some, e.g., Kripke Modal Transition Systems (KMTSs) put strong restrictions...
A key concern in safety engineering is understanding the overall emergent failure behaviour of a system, i.e., behaviour exhibited by the system that is outside its specification ...
This paper describes how the Organization-based Multiagent Systems Engineering (O-MaSE) methodology can be applied to an exemplar multiagent system, the Conference Management Syste...
This paper proposes STORAGEDB: a paradigm for implementing storage virtualation using databases. It describes details for storing the logical-to-physical mapping information as ta...
Lin Qiao, Balakrishna R. Iyer, Divyakant Agrawal, ...
Two operations commute if executing them serially in either order results in the same change of state. In a system in which commands may be issued simultaneously by different use...
Greg Dennis, Robert Seater, Derek Rayside, Daniel ...