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2003
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Model checking for probability and time: from theory to practice
Probability features increasingly often in software and hardware systems: it is used in distributed co-ordination and routing problems, to model fault-tolerance and performance, a...
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska
FSTTCS
2003
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
An Equational Theory for Transactions
Abstract. Transactions are commonly described as being ACID: Allor-nothing, Consistent, Isolated and Durable. However, although these words convey a powerful intuition, the ACID pr...
Andrew P. Black, Vincent Cremet, Rachid Guerraoui,...
WDAG
2001
Springer
122views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2001»
15 years 9 months ago
Computation Slicing: Techniques and Theory
We generalize the notion of slice introduced in our earlier paper [6]. A slice of a distributed computation with respect to a global predicate is the smallest computation that cont...
Neeraj Mittal, Vijay K. Garg
AAAI
2000
15 years 6 months ago
What Sensing Tells Us: Towards a Formal Theory of Testing for Dynamical Systems
Just as actions can have indirect effects on the state of the world, so too can sensing actions have indirect effects on an agent's state of knowledge. In this paper, we inve...
Sheila A. McIlraith, Richard B. Scherl
CONCUR
2010
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A Theory of Design-by-Contract for Distributed Multiparty Interactions
Reliability is a critical issue in many multi-organizational distributed applications, be they web services, financial protocols, scientific computing infrastructure, and software ...
Laura Bocchi, Kohei Honda, Emilio Tuosto, Nobuko Y...