A natural trend in most of the engineering disciplines is the construction of systems from components. This has the potential to reduce costs and increase reliability, provided th...
Abstract. Failures are unavoidable in many circumstances. For example, an agent may fail at some point to perform a task in a dynamic environment. Robust systems typically have mec...
Exploiting today’s multiprocessors requires highperformance and correct concurrent systems code (optimising compilers, language runtimes, OS kernels, etc.), which in turn requir...
Susmit Sarkar, Peter Sewell, Jade Alglave, Luc Mar...
Abstract. The Nuprl system is a framework for reasoning about mathematics and programming. Over the years its design has been substantially improved to meet the demands of large-sc...
Stuart F. Allen, Robert L. Constable, Richard Eato...
This paper aims at proposing a general formal framework for dialogue between autonomous agents which are looking for a common agreement about a collective choice. The proposed set...