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CADE
2006
Springer
16 years 3 days ago
Inferring Network Invariants Automatically
Abstract. Verification by network invariants is a heuristic to solve uniform verification of parameterized systems. Given a system P, a network invariant for P is that abstracts th...
Olga Grinchtein, Martin Leucker, Nir Piterman
ENC
2004
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Distributed Learning in Intentional BDI Multi-Agent Systems
Despite the relevance of the belief-desire-intention (BDI) model of rational agency, little work has been done to deal with its two main limitations: the lack of learning competen...
Alejandro Guerra-Hernández, Amal El Fallah-...
POPL
2009
ACM
16 years 13 days ago
Proving that non-blocking algorithms don't block
A concurrent data-structure implementation is considered nonblocking if it meets one of three following liveness criteria: waitfreedom, lock-freedom, or obstruction-freedom. Devel...
Alexey Gotsman, Byron Cook, Matthew J. Parkinson, ...
PLILP
1992
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Unfold/fold Transformations Preserving Termination Properties
The unfold/fold framework constitutes the spine of many program transformation strategies. However, by unrestricted use of folding the target program may terminate less often than...
Torben Amtoft
USENIX
2007
15 years 2 months ago
DiskSeen: Exploiting Disk Layout and Access History to Enhance I/O Prefetch
Current disk prefetch policies in major operating systems track access patterns at the level of the file abstraction. While this is useful for exploiting application-level access...
Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang, Feng Chen, Kei Davis, X...