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LPAR
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Why Would You Trust B ?
Abstract. The use of formal methods provides confidence in the correctness of developments. Yet one may argue about the actual level of confidence obtained when the method itself...
Éric Jaeger, Catherine Dubois
LICS
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Congruence Rule Format for Name-Passing Process Calculi from Mathematical Structural Operational Semantics
d Abstract) Marcelo Fiore∗ and Sam Staton† Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge We introduce a mathematical structural operational semantics that yields a congruence r...
Marcelo P. Fiore, Sam Staton
PODC
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Timeliness, failure-detectors, and consensus performance
We study the implication that various timeliness and failure detector assumptions have on the performance of consensus algorithms that exploit them. We present a general framework...
Idit Keidar, Alexander Shraer
DSOM
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
An Approach to Understanding Policy Based on Autonomy and Voluntary Cooperation
Presently, there is no satisfactory model for dealing with political autonomy of agents in policy based management. A theory of atomic policy units called ‘promises’ is therefo...
Mark Burgess
ECSQARU
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Bilattice-Based Squares and Triangles
Abstract. In this paper, Ginsberg’s/Fitting’s theory of bilattices is invoked as a natural accommodation and powerful generalization to both intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) an...
Ofer Arieli, Chris Cornelis, Glad Deschrijver, Eti...