Abstract. In this paper, we give an algorithm for fault-tolerant proactive leader election in asynchronous shared memory systems, and later its formal verification. Roughly speakin...
Abstract. Searle represents constitutive norms as count-as conditionals, written as `X counts as Y in context C'. Grossi et al. study a class of these conditionals as `in cont...
Considering an asynchronous system made up of n processes and where up to t of them can crash, finding the weakest assumptions that such a system has to satisfy for a common leade...
Abduction is a fundamental form of nonmonotonic reasoning that aims at finding explanations for observed manifestations. This process underlies many applications, from car configu...
Technology--the collection of devices and methods available to human society--evolves by constructing new devices and methods from ones that previously exist, and in turn offering...