Many self-organizing and self-adaptive systems use the biologically inspired “gradient” primitive, in which each device in a network estimates its distance to the closest devi...
Jonathan Bachrach, Jacob Beal, Joshua Horowitz, Da...
The idea of component based software systems has a long tradition in the field of software engineering. Component markets have been an integral part of this idea. However, such ma...
Dependable software systems are difficult to develop because developers must understand and address several interdependent and pervasive dependability concerns. Features that addr...
Abstract. We present automated techniques for the explanation of counterexamples, where a counter-example should be understood as a sequence of program statements. Our approach is ...
Star Superscalar is a task-based programming model. The programmer starts with an ordinary C program, and adds pragmas to mark functions as tasks, identifying their inputs and outp...