Eliciting, modeling, and analyzing the requirements are the main challenges to face up when you want to produce a formal specification for distributed systems. The distribution and...
Aziz Salah, Rabeb Mizouni, Rachida Dssouli, Benoit...
We present various techniques for improving the time and space efficiency of symbolic model checking for system requirements specified as synchronous finite state machines. We use...
William Chan, Richard J. Anderson, Paul Beame, Dav...
In this paper we consider the problem of policy evaluation in reinforcement learning, i.e., learning the value function of a fixed policy, using the least-squares temporal-differe...
Alessandro Lazaric, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Ré...
Contracts in the real world often rest upon a notion of responsibility, by which parties commit to the fulfilment of particular imperatives embedded in the contract. Responsibili...
Martin J. Kollingbaum, Timothy J. Norman, Chris Re...
State machines are considered a very general means of expressing computations in an implementation-independent way. There are also ways to extend the general state machine framewor...