Abstract. Emergence--macro-level effects from micro-level causes--is at the heart of the conflict between reductionism and functionalism. How can there be autonomous higher level l...
We propose a framework for policy generation in continuoustime stochastic domains with concurrent actions and events of uncertain duration. We make no assumptions regarding the co...
This work focuses on one of the most critical issues to plague the wireless telecommunications industry today: the loss of a valuable subscriber to a competitor, also defined as ch...
Jorge Ferreira, Marley B. R. Vellasco, Marco Aur&e...
Simulation is the primary method for evaluating computer systems during all phases of the design process. One significant problem with simulation is that it rarely models the syst...
Jeff Gibson, Robert Kunz, David Ofelt, Mark Heinri...
In Bounded Model Checking both the system model and the checked property are translated into a Boolean formula to be analyzed by a SAT-solver. We introduce a new encoding technique...
Matteo Pradella, Angelo Morzenti, Pierluigi San Pi...