Verification Condition Generator (VCG) tools have been effective in simplifying the task of proving programs correct. However, in the past these VCG tools have in general not thems...
Statistical quantities, such as expectation (mean) and variance, play a vital role in the present age probabilistic analysis. In this paper, we present some formalization of expect...
Recent work on distributed, in-network aggregation assumes a benign population of participants. Unfortunately, modern distributed systems are plagued by malicious participants. In...
Minos N. Garofalakis, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Petro...
—The microprocessor verification challenge becomes higher in the on-chip bus (OCB) than in the unit-level. Especially for the external interrupts, since they interface with othe...
Current Web services composition proposals, such as BPML, BPEL, WSCI, and OWL-S, provide notations for describing the control and data flows in Web service collaborations. However...