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CADE
2006
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Inferring Network Invariants Automatically
Abstract. Verification by network invariants is a heuristic to solve uniform verification of parameterized systems. Given a system P, a network invariant for P is that abstracts th...
Olga Grinchtein, Martin Leucker, Nir Piterman
ENC
2004
IEEE
14 years 18 days ago
Distributed Learning in Intentional BDI Multi-Agent Systems
Despite the relevance of the belief-desire-intention (BDI) model of rational agency, little work has been done to deal with its two main limitations: the lack of learning competen...
Alejandro Guerra-Hernández, Amal El Fallah-...
POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Proving that non-blocking algorithms don't block
A concurrent data-structure implementation is considered nonblocking if it meets one of three following liveness criteria: waitfreedom, lock-freedom, or obstruction-freedom. Devel...
Alexey Gotsman, Byron Cook, Matthew J. Parkinson, ...
PLILP
1992
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
Unfold/fold Transformations Preserving Termination Properties
The unfold/fold framework constitutes the spine of many program transformation strategies. However, by unrestricted use of folding the target program may terminate less often than...
Torben Amtoft
USENIX
2007
13 years 11 months ago
DiskSeen: Exploiting Disk Layout and Access History to Enhance I/O Prefetch
Current disk prefetch policies in major operating systems track access patterns at the level of the file abstraction. While this is useful for exploiting application-level access...
Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang, Feng Chen, Kei Davis, X...