Building on the fact that descriptive frames are coalgebras for the Vietoris functor on the category of Stone spaces, we introduce and study the concept of a Vietoris bisimulation...
The purpose of this paper is to extend the notions of prime implicates and prime implicants to the basic modal logic K. We consider a number of different potential definitions of...
Testing is one of the fundamental techniques for verifying if a computing system conforms to its specification. We take a fresh look at the theory of testing for message-passing sy...
Abstract. Predicate encryption is a new powerful cryptographic primitive which allows for fine-grained access control for encrypted data: the owner of the secret key can release pa...
Most of the proposed concurrency control protocols for real-time database systems (RTDBS) are based on serializability theorem. Owing to the unique characteristics of real-time da...