We consider the problem of incorporating arbitrary preferences in planning systems. A preference may be seen as a goal or constraint that is desirable, but not necessary, to satis...
Atomicity-checking is a powerful approach for finding subtle concurrency errors in shared-memory multithreaded code. The goal is to verify that certain code sections appear to exec...
Abstract—We consider adapting the transmission rate to maximize the goodput, i.e., the amount of data transmitted without error, over a continuous Markov flat-fading wireless ch...
We perform a Why-Because Analysis (WBA) starting from the information in the Executive Summary of the U.S. DoD Aircraft Accident Investigation Board report on the shootdown of two ...
Salient stimuli, such as color or motion contrasts, attract human attention, thus providing a fast heuristic for focusing limited neural resources on behaviorally relevant sensory...