Abstract. Any formalmethodor tool is almostcertainlymoreoftenapplied in situationswheretheoutcomeis failure(acounterexample)rather than success (a correctness proof). We present a ...
Luca de Alfaro, Thomas A. Henzinger, Freddy Y. C. ...
This paper describes an agent-based architecture designed to support the interoperation of distributed and disparate information processing tools and resources. This work is based...
Stephen Cranefield, Emanuela Moreale, Bryce McKinl...
Threads have been present in programming languages for some time now. However, they have a bad image among software developers because they lead to unreliable applications. Most o...
Replication is a commonly proposed solution to problems of scale associated with distributed services. However, when a service is replicated, each client must be assigned a server...
One objective of distributed artificial intelligence research is to build systems that are capable of cooperative problem solving. To this end, a number of implementation-oriented ...