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IFM
2010
Springer
190views Formal Methods» more  IFM 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
On Model Checking Techniques for Randomized Distributed Systems
Abstract. The automata-based model checking approach for randomized distributed systems relies on an operational interleaving semantics of the system by means of a Markov decision ...
Christel Baier
GI
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Distributed Job Scheduling in a Peer-to-Peer Video Recording System
: Since the advent of Gnutella, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) protocols have matured towards a fundamental design element for large-scale, self-organising distributed systems. Many research e...
Curt Cramer, Kendy Kutzner, Thomas Fuhrmann
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
STOC
2006
ACM
152views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Private approximation of search problems
Many approximation algorithms have been presented in the last decades for hard search problems. The focus of this paper is on cryptographic applications, where it is desired to de...
Amos Beimel, Paz Carmi, Kobbi Nissim, Enav Weinreb
HYBRID
2010
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Compositional analysis for linear control systems
The complexity of physical and engineering systems, both in terms of the governing physical phenomena and the number of subprocesses involved, is mirrored in ever more complex mat...
Florian Kerber, Arjan van der Schaft