We present a framework for component-based design and scheduling of real-time embedded software. Each component has a clearly specified interface that includes the methods used fo...
Traditional negotiation, conducted face-to-face and via mail or telephone, is often difficult to manage, prone to misunderstanding, and time consuming. Automated negotiation promis...
Debugging distributed applications is a wellknown challenge within the realm of Computer Science. Common problems faced by developers include: lack of an observable global state, ...
Abstract. We show how to generate well-founded and stable term orderings based on polynomial interpretations over the real numbers. Monotonicity (another usual requirement in termi...
The join of two sets of facts, E1 and E2, is defined as the set of all facts that are implied independently by both E1 and E2. Congruence closure is a widely used representation f...