The systematic exploration of the space of all the behaviours of a software system forms the basis of numerous approaches to verification. However, existing approaches face many c...
Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Richard M. Chang, Guofei ...
Despite its relatively short history, a wealth of formalisms exist for algebraic specification of stochastic systems. The goal of this paper is to give such formalisms a unifying ...
Hossein Hojjat, Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Marjan Sirj...
We take a dual view of Markov processes ? advocated by Kozen ? as transformers of bounded measurable functions. We redevelop the theory of labelled Markov processes from this view ...
Philippe Chaput, Vincent Danos, Prakash Panangaden...
— Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a rich mathematical model to handle realworld sequential decision processes but require a known model to be solv...
A top-down query processing method for first order deductive databases under the disjunctive well-founded semantics (DWFS) is presented. The method is based upon a characterisation...