This paper investigates relative precision and optimality of analyses for concurrent probabilistic systems. Aiming at the problem at the heart of probabilistic model checking ? com...
Due to the advent of multi-core processors and the consequent need for better concurrent programming abstractions, new synchronization paradigms have emerged. A promising one, kno...
Felipe Goldstein, Alexandro Baldassin, Paulo Cento...
The paper discusses ITS architectures in terms of patterns that exist within them. The concept of patterns has received surprisingly little attention so far from researchers in the...
Attainment of software performance assurances in open, largely unpredictable environments has recently become an important focus for real-time research. Unlike closed embedded sys...
Ronghua Zhang, Chenyang Lu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, J...
Software product lines (PLs) are large, complex systems, demanding high maintainability and enhanced flexibility. Nonetheless, in the state of the art PL methods, features are sca...