Successful interaction between autonomous agents is contingent on those agents making decisions consistent with the expectations of their peers -- these expectations are based on ...
Abstract. Contract-based property checkers hold the potential for precise, scalable, and incremental reasoning. However, it is difficult to apply such checkers to large program mod...
Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Shaz Qadeer, Juan P. Galeotti,...
Software complexity has increased substantially in the last decade. This has made software development teams work faster and under tight budgets. Reusing software can be a way of s...
Paulo Gomes, Francisco C. Pereira, Paulo Paiva, Nu...
ABSTRACT -- SPEC-VALUE, a rigorous scenario-driven approach for the description and validation of complex system functionalities at the early stages of design, is presented. It is ...
We describe two general approaches to creating document-level maps of science. To create a local map one defines and directly maps a sample of data, such as all literature publish...