Abstract. In a service-oriented world, a long-running business process can be implemented as a set of stateful services that represent the individual but coordinated steps that mak...
Surya Nepal, Alan Fekete, Paul Greenfield, Julian ...
We study an approximation for the zero-variance change of measure to estimate the probability of a rare event in a continuous-time Markov chain. The rare event occurs when the cha...
Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Pierre L'Ecuyer, Gerardo Rub...
: The overall safety integrity of a safety critical system, comprising both software and hardware, is typically specified quantitatively, e.g., in terms of failure rates. However, ...
— For a mobile robot it is critical to detect and compensate for slippage, especially when driving in rough terrain environments. Due to its highly unpredictable nature, drift la...
We study the time-complexity of robust atomic read/write storage from fault-prone storage components in asynchronous message-passing systems. Robustness here means wait-free tolera...
Dan Dobre, Rachid Guerraoui, Matthias Majuntke, Ne...