Robustness, through fault tolerance, is a property often put forward in order to advocate MAS. The question is: What is the first step to be fault tolerant? Obviously the answer i...
Katia Potiron, Patrick Taillibert, Amal El Fallah-...
Combining theorem proving and model checking o ers the tantalizing possibility of e ciently reasoning about large circuits at high levels of abstraction. We have constructed a syst...
Mark Aagaard, Robert B. Jones, Carl-Johan H. Seger
Existing ML-like languages guarantee type-safety, ensuring memty and protecting the invariants of abstract types, but only within single executions of single programs. Distributed...
John Billings, Peter Sewell, Mark R. Shinwell, Rok...
Standard ML is a statically typed programming language that is suited for the construction of both small and large programs. "Programming in the small" is captured by St...
In open systems where the components, i.e. the agents and the resources, may be unknown at design time, or in dynamic and self-organizing systems evolving with time, there is a ne...