Abstract. Commitments are a powerful abstraction for representing the interactions between agents. Commitments capture the content of the interactions declaratively and allow agent...
Abstract-- This work presents a technology-independent synthesis optimization that is effective in reducing the total number of state elements of a design. It works by identifying ...
Michael L. Case, Alan Mishchenko, Robert K. Brayto...
Embedded networks for chip-to-chip networks are emerging as communication infrastructure in mobile devices. We present three novel embedded network protocols: a sliding window prot...
Despo Galataki, Andrei Radulescu, Kees Verstoep, W...
Data-centric business applications comprise an important class of distributed systems that includes on-line stores, document management systems, and patient portals. However, their...
In object-oriented programming, unique permissions to object references are useful for checking correctness properties such as consistency of typestate and noninterference of conc...
Karl Naden, Robert Bocchino, Jonathan Aldrich, Kev...