While logic programming languages offer a great deal of scope for parallelism, there is usually some overhead associated with the execution of goals in parallel because of the wor...
Saumya K. Debray, Nai-Wei Lin, Manuel V. Hermenegi...
Abstract. We introduce software integrity checking expressions (SoftICEs), which are program predicates that can be used in software tamper detection. We present two candidates, pr...
Mariusz H. Jakubowski, Prasad Naldurg, Vijay Patan...
Abstract. Blast is an automatic verification tool for checking temporal safety properties of C programs. Given a C program and a temporal safety property, Blast statically proves ...
Dirk Beyer, Thomas A. Henzinger, Ranjit Jhala, Rup...
Abstract. In this paper we describe an approach to the representation and implementation of agent-based systems where the behaviour of an individual agent is represented by a set o...
Query optimization is used frequently in relational database management systems. Most existing techniques are based on reordering the relational operators, where the most selective...