We describe race-free properties of a hardware description language called GEZEL. The language describes networks of cycle-true finite-state-machines with datapaths (FSMDs). We de...
Patrick Schaumont, Sandeep K. Shukla, Ingrid Verba...
Many emerging applications in both wired and wireless networks, such as information dissemination and distributed collaboration in an adversarial environment, need support of secu...
The growing cost of tuning and managing computer systems is leading to out-sourcing of commercial services to hosting centers. These centers provision thousands of dense servers w...
In today’s integrating information systems data fusion, i.e., the merging of multiple tuples about the same real-world object into a single tuple, is left to ETL tools and other ...
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...