The `Cooperation Logic of Propositional Control', cl-pc, of van der Hoek and Wooldridge is a logic for reasoning about the ability of agents and groups of agents to obtain a ...
In language-based security, confidentiality and integrity policies conveniently specify the permitted flows of information between different parts of a program with diverse levels...
Process/thread migration and checkpointing schemes support load balancing, load sharing and fault tolerance to improve application performance and system resource usage on worksta...
Abstract. We propose a new operational model for shared variable concurrency, in the context of a concurrent, higher-order imperative language `a la ML. In our model the scheduling...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) pose challenges not present in classical distributed systems: resource limitations, high failure rates, and ad hoc deployment. The lossy nature of w...