Assuming the Unique Games Conjecture (UGC), we show optimal inapproximability results for two classic scheduling problems. We obtain a hardness of 2 − ε for the problem of mini...
We study the alternating-time temporal logics ATL and ATL extended with strategy contexts: these make agents commit to their strategies during the evaluation of formulas, contrary...
Few systems combine both Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) and multimodal input. This research aims at modeling the behavior of adults and children during their multimodal int...
We show that recursive programs where variables range over finite domains can be effectively and efficiently analyzed by describing the analysis algorithm using a formula in a ...
Salvatore La Torre, Parthasarathy Madhusudan, Genn...
We present an algorithm for automatic testing of distributed programs, such as Unix processes with inter-process communication and Web services. Specifically, we assume that a prog...