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OTM
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Service-Oriented Workflow Language for Robust Interacting Applications
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 ...
WSC
2007
14 years 10 days ago
Estimating the probability of a rare event over a finite time horizon
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...
IJCCBS
2010
105views more  IJCCBS 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Software safety: relating software assurance and software integrity
: 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, ...
Ibrahim Habli, Richard Hawkins, Tim Kelly
ICRA
2008
IEEE
162views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
Vision-based estimation of slip angle for mobile robots and planetary rovers
— 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...
Giulio Reina, Genya Ishigami, Keiji Nagatani, Kazu...
PODC
2011
ACM
13 years 26 days ago
The complexity of robust atomic storage
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...