As a means of transmitting not only data but also code encapsulated within functions, higher-order channels provide an advanced form of task parallelism in parallel computations. ...
Programming in an open environment remains challenging because it requires combining modularity, security, concurrency, distribution, and dynamicity. In this paper, we propose an ...
Michael Lienhardt, Alan Schmitt, Jean-Bernard Stef...
We present a process-algebraic language for Probabilistic I/O Automata (PIOA). To ensure that PIOA specifications given in our language satisfy the “input-enabled” property, w...
Eugene W. Stark, Rance Cleaveland, Scott A. Smolka
Ontologies, and in particular upper ontologies, are foundational to the establishment of the Semantic Web. Upper ontologies are used as equivalence formalisms between domain speci...
Winston Anderson, Laurette Pretorius, Albert E. Ko...
Formal languages for probabilistic modeling enable re-use, modularity, and descriptive clarity, and can foster generic inference techniques. We introduce Church, a universal langu...
Noah Goodman, Vikash K. Mansinghka, Daniel M. Roy,...