Abstract. Modern embedded devices (e.g. PDAs, mobile phones) are now incorporating Java as a very popular implementation language in their designs. These new embedded systems inclu...
Validation of distributed systems using fault injection is difficult because of their inherent complexity, lack of a global clock, and lack of an easily accessible notion of a gl...
Ramesh Chandra, Michel Cukier, Ryan M. Lefever, Wi...
The paper presents an unified Description Logic (DL) model for databases. Describing database models using DLs is a fundamental problem in many areas because it turns databases to...
1 In the complexity and simulation communities there is growing support for the use of bottom-up computer-based simulation in the analysis of complex systems. The presumption is th...
We present dcl-pc: a dynamic logic of delegation and cooperation. The logical foundation of dcl-pc is cl-pc, a logic for reasoning about cooperation in which the powers of agents ...