There are currently two approaches to providing Byzantine-fault-tolerant state machine replication: a replica-based approach, e.g., BFT, that uses communication between replicas t...
James A. Cowling, Daniel S. Myers, Barbara Liskov,...
We propose a method for describing architectural aspects in UML and show how binding specifications are used to compose aspects with base models. UML classes, parts, ports, and c...
In this paper we introduce a new research effort in making state machines executable. The aim is to specify and implement an execution engine for a language that is as close as po...
In this paper, we present an approach to extract scenes in video. The approach is top-down and uses video editing rules and audio cues to extract simple dialog and action scenes. ...
This article introduces the entity-life modeling (ELM) design approach for multithread software. The article focuses on problems that can be described by state machines with assoc...