Abstract--The automation of policy refinement, whilst promising great benefits for policy-based management, has hitherto received relatively little treatment in the literature, wit...
Robert Craven, Jorge Lobo, Emil C. Lupu, Alessandr...
Ubiquitous Computing Environments feature massively distributed systems containing a large number of devices, services and applications that help end-users perform various kinds o...
Chetan Shiva Shankar, Anand Ranganathan, Roy H. Ca...
This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
We present several improvements to general-purpose sequential redundancy removal. First, we propose using a robust variety of synergistic transformation and verification algorithm...
Hari Mony, Jason Baumgartner, Viresh Paruthi, Robe...
We introduce a calculus for handling integer arithmetic in first-order logic. The method is tailored to Java program verification and meant to be used both as a supporting procedur...