Sciweavers

1098 search results - page 147 / 220
» System safety as an emergent property in composite systems
Sort
View
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Private Buddy Search: Enabling Private Spatial Queries in Social Networks
—With the abundance of location-aware portable devices such as cellphones and PDAs, a new emerging application is to use this pervasive computing platform to learn about the wher...
Ali Khoshgozaran, Cyrus Shahabi
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Better I/O through byte-addressable, persistent memory
Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent memo...
Jeremy Condit, Edmund B. Nightingale, Christopher ...
IFM
2005
Springer
100views Formal Methods» more  IFM 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Embedding the Stable Failures Model of CSP in PVS
We present an embedding of the stable failures model of CSP in the PVS theorem prover. Our work, extending a previous embedding of the traces model of CSP in [6], provides a platfo...
Kun Wei, James Heather
IPPS
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Predicate Control for Active Debugging of Distributed Programs
Existing approaches to debugging distributed systems involve a cycle of passive observation followed by computation replaying. We propose predicate control as an active approach t...
Ashis Tarafdar, Vijay K. Garg
FAABS
2000
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
Modeling and Programming Devices and Web Agents
This paper integrates research in robot programming and reasoning about action with research in model-based reasoning about physical systems to provide a capability for modeling an...
Sheila A. McIlraith