Topological relationships between spatial objects are important for querying, reasoning, and indexing of data within spatial databases. These relationships are qualitative and resp...
Mark McKenney, Alejandro Pauly, Reasey Praing, Mar...
Abstract. We describe how the PVS verification system has been used to verify a safety property of a garbage collection algorithm, originally suggested by Ben-Ari. The safety prope...
The Gamma model is a minimal programming language based on local multiset rewriting (with an elegant chemical reaction metaphor); Hankin et al derived a calculus of Gamma programs...
Imitation can be viewed as a means of enhancing learning in multiagent environments. It augments an agent’s ability to learn useful behaviors by making intelligent use of the kn...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...