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AIMS
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Modeling Change Without Breaking Promises
Promise theory defines a method by which static service bindings are made in a network, but little work has been done on handling the dynamic case in which bindings must change ov...
Alva L. Couch, Hengky Susanto, Marc Chiarini
DSN
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
One-step Consensus with Zero-Degradation
In the asynchronous distributed system model, consensus is obtained in one communication step if all processes propose the same value. Assuming f < n/3, this is regardless of t...
Dan Dobre, Neeraj Suri
BIRTHDAY
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Graph Transformation with Variables
Abstract. Variables make rule-based systems more abstract and expressive, as witnessed by term rewriting systems and two-level grammars. In this paper we show that variables can be...
Berthold Hoffmann
NORDICHI
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Breaking affordance: culture as context
The concept of affordance as it applies to user interface design is widely used and accepted; possibly overused. This paper explores one of the constraints on affordance: culture....
Lidia Oshlyansky, Harold W. Thimbleby, Paul A. Cai...
CC
2001
Springer
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15 years 9 months ago
Alias Analysis by Means of a Model Checker
We study the application of a standard model checker tool, Spin, to the well-known problem of computing a may-alias relation for a C program. A precise may-alias relation can signi...
Vincenzo Martena, Pierluigi San Pietro