A distributed calculus is proposed for describing networks of services. We model service interaction through a call-by-property invocation mechanism, by specifying the security co...
Massimo Bartoletti, Pierpaolo Degano, Gian Luigi F...
Physical synthesis is a relatively young field in Electronic Design Automation. Many published optimizations for physical synthesis end up hurting the quality of the final design,...
Replication is a widely used method for achieving high availability in database systems. Due to the nondeterminism inherent in traditional concurrency control schemes, however, sp...
In this paper we define and address the problem of safe exploration in the context of reinforcement learning. Our notion of safety is concerned with states or transitions that can ...
Safely updating software at remote sites is a cautious balance of enabling new functionality and avoiding adverse effects on existing functionality. A useful first step in this p...