Protocols enable unambiguous, smooth interactions among agents. Commitments among agents are a powerful means of developing protocols. Commitments enable flexible execution of pro...
Shared memory in a parallel computer provides prowith the valuable abstraction of a shared address space--through which any part of a computation can access any datum. Although un...
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. ...
Ever-growing complexity is forcing design to move above RTL. For example, golden functional models are being written as clearly as possible in software and not optimized or intend...
A model for learning in the limit is defined where a (so-called iterative) learner gets all positive examples from the target language, tests every new conjecture with a teacher ...