The need to merge different versions of an object toa common state arises in collaborative computing due to several reasons including optimistic concurrency control, asynchronous ...
Applications communicating over connectionless networks, such as IP, cannot obtain per-connection Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In contrast, the connection-oriented nature ...
The aim of this paper is to find the finest `observable' and `implementable' equivalence on concurrent processes. This is a part of a larger programme to develop a theor...
Bounded quantification was introduced by Cardelli and Wegner as a means of typing functions that operate uniformly over all subtypes of a given type. They defined a simple “ob...
Peter S. Canning, William R. Cook, Walter L. Hill,...
We propose to design and study new techniques for description logic (DL) reasoning based on a prominent data structure that has been applied very successfully in various domains in...