The SPIN model checker and its specification language Promela have been used extensively in industry and academia to check logical properties of distributed algorithms and protoc...
Polyhedra: An Abstract Domain to Infer Interval Linear Relationships Liqian Chen1,2 , Antoine Min?e2,3 , Ji Wang1 , and Patrick Cousot2,4 1 National Laboratory for Parallel and Dis...
Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...
We discuss the representation of knowledge and of belief from the viewpoint of decision theory. While the Bayesian approach enjoys general-purpose applicability and axiomatic foun...
We study the problem of e cient maintenance of materialized views that may contain duplicates. This problem is particularly important when queries against such views involve aggre...