Planning algorithms have traditionally been geared toward achievement goals in single-agent environments. Such algorithms essentially produce plans to reach one of a specified se...
The main goal to be answered by this Ph.D. thesis is whether there is a potential for a successful and powerful application of agile methods and related techniques to embedded syst...
Abstract. The reachability analysis of recursive programs that communicate asynchronously over reliable Fifo channels calls for restrictions to ensure decidability. We extend here ...
We define a language whose type system, incorporating session types, allows complex protocols to be specified by types and verified by static typechecking. A session type, asso...
Query containment is the most fundamental relationship between a pair of database queries: a query Q is said to be contained in a query Q if the answer for Q is always a subset of...