In 2007, approximately 30% of US adults were obese, with related health care costs exceeding 100 billion dollars. Clearly, the obesity epidemic represents a growing societal conce...
Jonathan Lester, Carl Hartung, Laura Pina, Ryan Li...
In the design of real-time and embedded systems, it is important to establish a bound on the worst-case execution time (WCET) of programs to assure via schedulability analysis tha...
Joel Coffman, Christopher A. Healy, Frank Mueller,...
Bugs in concurrent programs are extremely difficult to find and fix during testing. In this paper, we propose Kivati, which can efficiently detect and prevent atomicity violat...
The construction of distributed applications is a challenging task due to inherent system properties like message passing and concurrency. Current technology trends further increas...
Traditional automata accept or reject their input, and are therefore Boolean. In contrast, weighted automata map each word to a value from a semiring over a large domain. The speci...