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WWW
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Web service interfaces
We present a language for specifying web service interfaces. A web service interface puts three kinds of constraints on the users of the service. First, the interface specifies th...
Dirk Beyer, Arindam Chakrabarti, Thomas A. Henzing...
DSN
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Experiences with formal specification of fault-tolerant file systems
Fault-tolerant, replicated file systems are a crucial component of today's data centers. Despite their huge complexity, these systems are typically specified only in brief pr...
Roxana Geambasu, Andrew Birrell, John MacCormick
PODS
2006
ACM
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15 years 9 months ago
From statistical knowledge bases to degrees of belief: an overview
An intelligent agent will often be uncertain about various properties of its environment, and when acting in that environment it will frequently need to quantify its uncertainty. ...
Joseph Y. Halpern
ESAW
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Using Constraints and Process Algebra for Specification of First-Class Agent Interaction Protocols
Abstract. Current approaches to multi-agent interaction involve specifying protocols as sets of possible interactions, and hard-coding decision mechanisms into agent programs in or...
Tim Miller, Peter McBurney
LPNMR
1990
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
The meaning of Negative Premises in Transition System Specifications
We present a general theory for the use of negative premises in the rules of Transition System Specifications (TSSs). We formulate a criterion that should be satisfied by a TSS in ...
Roland N. Bol, Jan Friso Groote