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ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Agent dependability as an architectural issue
Layered architectures are a proven principle for the design of software systems and components. The paper introduces a layered reference architecture for software agents which assi...
Peter C. Lockemann, Jens Nimis
IASTEDSEA
2004
15 years 3 months ago
Insecurity by contract
Design by Contract is a design methodology that promotes software reliability and reusability by requiring each component module to have a well-specified interface and leaves a mo...
Phillip L. Nico, Clark Savage Turner, Kimberly Kno...
FLAIRS
2000
15 years 3 months ago
A Case Study in the Mechanical Verification of Fault Tolerance
To date, there is little evidence that modular reasoning about fault-tolerant systems can simplify the verification process in practice. We study this question using a prominent e...
Heiko Mantel, Felix C. Gärtner
ACTA
2007
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15 years 2 months ago
Distributed Consensus, revisited
We provide a novel model to formalize a well-known algorithm, by Chandra and Toueg, that solves Consensus among asynchronous distributed processes in the presence of a particular ...
Rachele Fuzzati, Massimo Merro, Uwe Nestmann
PUC
2008
116views more  PUC 2008»
15 years 1 months ago
Prototypical implementation of location-aware services based on a middleware architecture for super-distributed RFID tag infrast
of the hardware abstraction layer and of selected core middleware services. The latter enable a mobile device to store and retrieve data and position information in physical places...
Jürgen Bohn