Protocols enable unambiguous, smooth interactions among agents. Commitments among agents are a powerful means of developing protocols. Commitments enable flexible execution of pro...
nce of computation has systematically abstracted away the physical world. Embedded software systems, however, engage the physical world. Time, concurrency, liveness, robustness, c...
In many distributed environments, the primary function of monitoring software is to detect anomalies, that is, instances when system behavior deviates substantially from the norm....
Shipra Agrawal, Supratim Deb, K. V. M. Naidu, Raje...
Current developments show that tomorrow’s information systems and applications will no longer be based on monolithic architectures that encompass all the functionality. Rather, t...
Abstract. We define and study a quantitative generalization of the traditional boolean framework of model-based specification and verification. In our setting, propositions have...