Humans are "smart components" in a system, but cannot be directly programmed to perform; rather, their autonomy must be respected as a design constraint and incentives p...
The products of systems cannot always be judged at face value: the process by which they were obtained is also important. For instance, the rigour of a scientific experiment, the e...
Simon Miles, Paul T. Groth, Steve Munroe, Michael ...
Self-management is a key feature of autonomic systems. This often demands the dynamic reconfiguration of a distributed application. An important issue in the reconfiguration proce...
We present an approach for the design and analysis of an electronic voting machine based on a novel combination of formal verification and systematic testing. The system was desig...
Cynthia Sturton, Susmit Jha, Sanjit A. Seshia, Dav...
We propose a small extension of the ERLANG language that allows programmers to specify contracts with type information at the level of individual functions. Such contracts are opt...
Miguel Jimenez, Tobias Lindahl, Konstantinos F. Sa...