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PEPM
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A3PAT, an approach for certified automated termination proofs
Software engineering, automated reasoning, rule-based programming or specifications often use rewriting systems for which termination, among other properties, may have to be ensur...
Evelyne Contejean, Andrey Paskevich, Xavier Urbain...
PODS
2008
ACM
174views Database» more  PODS 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Epistemic privacy
We present a novel definition of privacy in the framework of offline (retroactive) database query auditing. Given information about the database, a description of sensitive data, ...
Alexandre V. Evfimievski, Ronald Fagin, David P. W...
MICRO
2007
IEEE
94views Hardware» more  MICRO 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Uncorq: Unconstrained Snoop Request Delivery in Embedded-Ring Multiprocessors
Snoopy cache coherence can be implemented in any physical network topology by embedding a logical unidirectional ring in the network. Control messages are forwarded using the ring...
Karin Strauss, Xiaowei Shen, Josep Torrellas
AI
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
EXPTIME tableaux for ALC
We show that global caching can be used with propagation of both satisfiability and unsatisfiability in a sound manner to give an EXPTIME algorithm for checking satisfiability w.r....
Francesco M. Donini, Fabio Massacci
AAAI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Semantical Considerations on Dialectical and Practical Commitments
This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
Munindar P. Singh