Abstract. The concept of unreliable failure detectors for reliable distributed systems was introduced by Chandra and Toueg as a fine-grained means to add weak forms of synchrony i...
Conceptual complexity is emerging as a new bottleneck as data-base developers, application developers, and database administrators struggle to design and comprehend large, complex...
We propose a framework for the formal speci cation and veri cation of timed and hybrid systems. For timed systems we propose a speci cation language that refers to time only throug...
In this paper we develop a formalization of semantic relations that facilitates efficient implementations of relations in lexical databases or knowledge representation systems usi...
The modeling of music as a language is a core issue for a wide range of applications such as polyphonic music retrieval, automatic style identification, audio to symbolic music tr...