Hybrid systems like computer-controlled chemical plants are typical safety critical distributed systems. In present practice, the safety of hybrid systems is guaranteed by hazard ...
This paper presents the ARTS (Agent-oriented Robust Transactional System) model, which applies transaction concepts to provide agent developers with high-level support for agent s...
Crosscutting concerns are pervasive in embedded software, because of the various constraints imposed by the environment and the stringent QOS requirements on the system. This pape...
Thomas Cottenier, Aswin van den Berg, Tzilla Elrad
This paper discusses a register bank assignment problem for a popular network processor--Intel's IXP. Due to limited data paths, the network processor has a restriction that ...
A formula in first-order logic can be viewed as a tree, with a logical connective at each node, and a knowledge base can be viewed as a tree whose root is a conjunction. Markov l...