Abstract. We describe a scalable incomplete boundedness test for the communication buffers in UML RT models. UML RT is a variant of the UML modeling language, tailored to describin...
In Software Transactional Memory (STM), contention management refers to the mechanisms used to ensure forward progress-to avoid livelock and starvation, and to promote throughput ...
Michael F. Spear, Luke Dalessandro, Virendra J. Ma...
We consider discrete infinite-state Markov chains which contain an eager finite attractor. A finite attractor is a finite subset of states that is eventually reached with prob...
Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Noomene Ben Henda, Richard Ma...
Topological self-stabilization is an important concept to build robust open distributed systems (such as peer-to-peer systems) where nodes can organize themselves into meaningful n...
Control of mobile networks raises fundamental and novel problems in controlling the structure of the resulting dynamic graphs. In particular, in applications involving mobile senso...