that negotiation is a powerful abstract notion for the coordination of generic services available from distributed components. This is the main motivation underlying the developme...
Passing functions and function objects to general routines is a powerful abstraction mechanism that should be taught in freshman computer science. In C++, a “function” can be ...
abstraction heuristics, notably pattern-database and merge-and-shrink heuristics, are employed by some state-ofthe-art optimal heuristic-search planners. The major limitation of t...
Abstract. In social mechanism design, obligation distribution creates individual or contractual obligations that imply a collective obligation. A distinguishing feature from group ...
We present an improved algorithm for concretization of abstract eres in abstraction refinement-based invariant checking. The algorithm maps each transition of the abstract error ...