In recent papers, the partial order reduction approach has been adapted to reason about the probabilities for temporal properties in concurrent systems with probabilistic behaviour...
We consider the role played by the concept of action in AI. We first briefly summarize the advantages and limitations of past approaches to taking the concept as primitive, as emb...
Program specifications are important in many phases of the software development process, but they are often omitted or incomplete. An important class of specifications takes the f...
Constraint automata have been introduced to provide a compositional, operational semantics for the exogenous coordination language Reo, but they can also serve interface specifica...
Ad hoc and peer-to-peer (P2P) computing paradigms pose a number of security challenges. The deployment of classic security protocols to provide services such as node authentication...
Esther Palomar, Almudena Alcaide, Juan M. Est&eacu...