Given a specification of communication rules in a multiagent system (in the form of protocols, ACL semantics, etc.), the question of how to design appropriate agents that can oper...
The Parameterized Model Checking Problem (PMCP) is to decide whether a temporal property holds for a uniform family of systems, ¢¡ , comprised of finite, but arbitrarily many,...
The 9/11 tragedy triggered an increased interest in biometric passports. According to several sources [2], the electronic ID market is expected to increase by more than 50% per ann...
Probability features increasingly often in software and hardware systems: it is used in distributed co-ordination and routing problems, to model fault-tolerance and performance, a...
Probabilistic timed automata, a variant of timed automata extended with discrete probability distributions, is a specification formalism suitable for describing both nondeterminis...
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David Parker,...