: We present an extension of the programming-by-contract (PBC) paradigm to a concurrent and distributed environment. Classical PBC is characterized by absolute conformance of code ...
Anders Starcke Henriksen, Tom Hvitved, Andrzej Fil...
This paper introduces the PeerAccess framework for reasoning about authorization in open distributed systems, and shows how a parameterization of the framework can be used to reas...
Marianne Winslett, Charles C. Zhang, Piero A. Bona...
Dependable properties such as self-stabilization are crucial requirements in sensor networks. One way to achieve these properties is to utilize the vast literature on distributed ...
Peer-to-Peer systems have become a substantial element in computer networking. Distributing the load and splitting complex tasks are only some reasons why many developers have com...
Mirko Knoll, Arno Wacker, Gregor Schiele, Torben W...
We study the implication that various timeliness and failure detector assumptions have on the performance of consensus algorithms that exploit them. We present a general framework...