This paper addresses the need for formal specification and runtime verification of system-level requirements of distributed reactive systems. It describes a formalism for specifyi...
In this paper we define an algorithm for location-independent communication of mobile software Personal Assistants (PAs). The algorithm extends the Query Server with Caching algor...
Ubiquitous computing and communication environments connect systems and people in unprecedented ways, but also fundamentally challenge the mindset of traditional systems engineeri...
Accountability mechanisms, which rely on after-the-fact verification, are an attractive means to enforce authorization policies. In this paper, we describe an operational model of ...
Radha Jagadeesan, Alan Jeffrey, Corin Pitcher, Jam...
In this paper we propose a novel message-passing algorithm, the so-called Action-GDL, as an extension to the Generalized Distributive Law algorithm (GDL) [1] to efficiently solve...