Comprehending action preconditions and effects is an essential step in modeling the dynamics of the world. In this paper, we express the semantics of precondition relations extrac...
S. R. K. Branavan, Nate Kushman, Tao Lei, Regina B...
Tuning applications for multi-core systems involve subtle concepts and target-dependent optimizations. New languages are being designed to express concurrency and locality without...
Cupertino Miranda, Philippe Dumont, Albert Cohen, ...
Abstract. An abstract framework is developed to describe program transformation by specializing a given program to a restricted set of inputs. Particular cases include partial eval...
Data refinement is a common approach to reasoning about programs, based on establishing that te program indeed satisfies all the required properties imposed by an intended abstract...
Ivana Filipovic, Peter W. O'Hearn, Noah Torp-Smith...
Abstract. Pairing-based cryptography (PBC) has enabled the construction of many cryptographic protocols. However, there are scenarios when PBC is too heavyweight to use, such as wh...
Patrick P. Tsang, Sherman S. M. Chow, Sean W. Smit...