This paper identifies node affinity as an important property for scalable general-purpose locks. Nonuniform communication architectures (NUCAs), for example CCNUMAs built from a f...
Answer sharing is a key element in multi-agent systems as it allows agents to collaborate towards achieving a global goal. However exogenous knowledge of the world can influence e...
Jiefei Ma, Krysia Broda, Randy Goebel, Hiroshi Hos...
Abstract. The assume-guarantee paradigm is a powerful divide-andconquer mechanism for decomposing a veri cation task about a system into subtasks about the individual components of...
Thomas A. Henzinger, Marius Minea, Vinayak S. Prab...
Abstract. We describe a partial order reduction technique for a realtime component model. Components are described as timed automata with data ports, which can be composed in stati...
Abstract. We propose FIT, a flexible, light-weight and real-time scheduling system for wireless sensor platforms. There are three salient features of FIT. First, its two-tier hiera...
Wei Dong, Chun Chen, Xue Liu, Kougen Zheng, Rui Ch...