The tier aspect model addresses Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) in the context of database applications. It is a new technique of separation of concerns through tiers implemented...
We describe an improvement of the partial-order reduction algorithm for breadth-first search which was introduced in Spin version 4.0. Our improvement is based on the algorithm by...
Possible-world semantics are provided for Parikh’s relevance-sensitive model for belief revision. Having Grove’s system-of-spheres construction as a base, we consider addition...
We provide a framework for reasoning about information-hiding requirements in multiagent systems and for reasoning about anonymity in particular. Our framework employs the modal l...
As autonomous robots become increasingly adept at performing simple tasks like moving from place to place and picking up and delivering objects, it is becoming apparent that an im...
David Franklin, Roger E. Kahn, Michael J. Swain, R...