We present and implement an infrastructure for automating the negotiation of business contracts. Underlying our system is a declarative language for both (1) fully-specified, exe...
Daniel M. Reeves, Michael P. Wellman, Benjamin N. ...
Mapping problem-space features into solution-space features is a fundamental configuration problem in software product line engineering. A configuration problem is defined as g...
algorithms as networks of modules. The data flow architecture is popular because of the flexibility of mixing calculation modules with display modules, and because of its easy grap...
William L. Hibbard, Charles R. Dyer, Brian E. Paul
Dynamic correctness checking tools (a.k.a. lifeguards) can detect a wide array of correctness issues, such as memory, security, and concurrency misbehavior, in unmodified executa...
Olatunji Ruwase, Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, ...
We improve the approximation ratios for two optimization problems in planar graphs. For node-weighted Steiner tree, a classical network-optimization problem, the best achievable ap...
Erik D. Demaine, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Philip ...