Bus protocols are hard to specify correctly, and yet it is often critical and highly beneficial that their specifications are correct, complete, and unambiguous. The informal speci...
High performance computing (HPC) is gaining popularity in solving scientific applications. Using the current programming standards, however, it takes an HPC expert to efficiently ...
Abstract. We introduce a notion of instance-dependent verifiable random functions (InstD-VRFs for short). Informally, an InstD-VRF is, in some sense, a verifiable random function [...
GXL (Graph eXchange Language) is designed to be a standard exchange format for graph-based tools. GXL is defined as an XML sublanguage, which offers support for exchanging instanc...
Changes to software systems often entail a loss of quality, especially if they have to be accomplished under pressure of time. Long-term software projects must counter this phenome...