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CAV
2001
Springer
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15 years 1 months ago
Automated Verification of a Randomized Distributed Consensus Protocol Using Cadence SMV and PRISM
We consider the randomized consensus protocol of Aspnes and Herlihy for achieving agreement among N asynchronous processes that communicate via read/write shared registers. The alg...
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, Roberto Segal...
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PODC
1998
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Optimal Efficiency of Optimistic Contract Signing
A contract is a non-repudiable agreement on a given contract text, i.e., a contract can be used to prove agreement between its signatories to any verifier. A contract signing sche...
Birgit Pfitzmann, Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidn...
CASCON
2008
137views Education» more  CASCON 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Automating SLA modeling
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) define the level of service that a service provider must deliver. An SLA is a contract between service provider and consumer, and includes appropri...
Tony Chau, Vinod Muthusamy, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, El...
IJCAI
2003
14 years 11 months ago
On the Design of Social Diagnosis Algorithms for Multi-Agent Teams
Teamwork demands agreement among teammembers to collaborate and coordinate effectively. When a disagreement between teammates occurs (due to failures), team-members should ideally...
Meir Kalech, Gal A. Kaminka
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
A preliminary result on a representative-based multi-round protocol for multi-issue negotiations
Multi-issue negotiation protocols represent a promising field since most negotiation problems in the real world involve multiple issues. Our work focuses on negotiation with inte...
Katsuhide Fujita, Takayuki Ito, Mark Klein