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AMAI
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Approximate Probabilistic Constraints and Risk-Sensitive Optimization Criteria in Markov Decision Processes
The majority of the work in the area of Markov decision processes has focused on expected values of rewards in the objective function and expected costs in the constraints. Althou...
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Edmund H. Durfee
DSN
2003
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
A Data-Driven Finite State Machine Model for Analyzing Security Vulnerabilities
This paper combines an analysis of data on security vulnerabilities (published in Bugtraq database) and a focused source-code examination to develop a finite state machine (FSM) m...
Shuo Chen, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Jun Xu, Ravishanka...
ITICSE
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Studying program correctness by constructing contracts
Because the concept of program correctness is generally taught as an activity independent of the programming process, most introductory computer science (CS) students perceive it ...
Timothy S. Gegg-Harrison, Gary R. Bunce, Rebecca D...
PLDI
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A provably sound TAL for back-end optimization
Typed assembly languages provide a way to generate machinecheckable safety proofs for machine-language programs. But the soundness proofs of most existing typed assembly languages...
Juan Chen, Dinghao Wu, Andrew W. Appel, Hai Fang
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
Automated mechanism design for a self-interested designer
Often, an outcome must be chosen on the basis of the preferences reported by a group of agents. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely to m...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm