This paper presents techniques for analyzing channel contract specifications in Microsoft Research’s Singularity operating system. A channel contract is a state machine that sp...
A conversation is the global sequence of messages exchanged among the components of a distributed system. Conversations provide a promising model for specifying and analyzing the ...
To deal with data uncertainty, existing probabilistic database systems augment tuples with attribute-level or tuple-level probability values, which are loaded into the database al...
Ravi Jampani, Fei Xu, Mingxi Wu, Luis Leopoldo Per...
Patterns of Compositional Reasoning Nina Amla1 , E. Allen Emerson2 , Kedar Namjoshi3 , and Richard Trefler4 1 Cadence Design Systems 2 Univ. of Texas at Austin 3 Bell Labs, Lucent...
Nina Amla, E. Allen Emerson, Kedar S. Namjoshi, Ri...
—P2P computing platforms are subject to a wide range of attacks. In this paper, we propose a generalisation of the previous disk-less checkpointing approach for fault-tolerance i...