Over the past decade there has been a surge of academic and industrial interest in optimistic concurrency, i.e. the speculative parallel execution of code regions that have the se...
The last eight years have seen dramatic progress in temporal planning as highlighted by the temporal track in the last three International Planning Competitions (IPC). However, ou...
William Cushing, Daniel S. Weld, Subbarao Kambhamp...
The current standard in governing distributed transaction termination is the so-called Two-Phase Commit protocol (2PC). The first phase of 2PC is a voting phase, where the partici...
Maha Abdallah, Rachid Guerraoui, Philippe Pucheral
Separation Logic has witnessed tremendous success in recent years in reasoning about programs that deal with heap storage. Its success owes to the fundamental principle that one s...
We develop a theory of bisimulations in the join-calculus. We introduce a refined operational model that makes interactions with the environment explicit, and discuss the impact o...