A newly designed game is introduced, which feels like Backgammon, but has a simplified rule set. Unlike earlier attempts at simplifying the game, Nannon maintains enough features a...
Contracts and specifications have long been used in object-oriented design, programming and testing to enhance reliability before software deployment. However, the use of specifica...
Efficient energy and performance estimation of embedded software is a critical part of any system-level design flow. Macromodeling based estimation is an attempt to speed up estim...
WSML is an ontology language specifically tailored to annotate Web Services, and part of its semantics adheres to the rule-based knowledge representation paradigm of logic program...
Stephan Grimm, Uwe Keller, Holger Lausen, Gá...
We propose a type system for lock-freedom in the -calculus, which guarantees that certain communications will eventually succeed. Distinguishing features of our type system are: it...