Several high-level programming languages for programming agents and robots have been proposed in recent years. Each of these languages has its own features and merits. It is still...
We consider the problem of specifying data structures with complex sharing in a manner that is both declarative and results in provably correct code. In our approach, abstract data...
Peter Hawkins, Alex Aiken, Kathleen Fisher, Martin...
Chords are a declarative synchronisation construct based on the Join-Calculus, available in the programming language C. To our knowledge, chords have no formal model in an object-...
Sophia Drossopoulou, Alexis Petrounias, Alex Buckl...
The TCP/IP protocols and Sockets API underlie much of modern computation, but their semantics have historically been very complex and ill-defined. The real standard is the de fact...
Steve Bishop, Matthew Fairbairn, Michael Norrish, ...
Bitwise operations are commonly used in low-level systems code to access multiple data fields that have been packed into a single word. Program analysis tools that reason about s...