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ICSE
1999
IEEE-ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1999
IEEE-ACM
Formal verification methods are used only sparingly in software development. The most successful methods to date are based on the use of model checking tools. To use such he user ...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2005
Springer
There is a wide agreement on the use of norms in order to specify the expected behaviour of agents in open MAS. However, in highly regulated domains, where norms dictate what can a...
ICECCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Distributed information systems are critical to the functioning of many businesses; designing them to be dependable is a challenging but important task. We report our experience i...
IJCSA
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a widely used communication protocol. In this paper, a portion of the protocol is chosen for modeling and verification, namely th...
IPPS
2003
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
2003
IEEE
This paper investigates a complexity-effective technique for verifying a highly distributed directory-based cache coherence protocol. We develop a novel approach called “witnes...