Model checking tools based on the iterative refinement of predicate abstraction (e.g., Slam and Blast) often feature a specification language for expressing complex behavior rules....
Measuring effort accurately and consistently across subjects in a programming experiment can be a surprisingly difficult task. In particular, measures based on self-reported data ...
Lorin Hochstein, Victor R. Basili, Marvin V. Zelko...
Development of high quality code is extremely dicult. Tools that help maintaining the proper quality of code produced by programmers can be very useful: they may increase the qua...
Maciej Cielecki, Jedrzej Fulara, Krzysztof Jakubcz...
The paper presents a method for generating solutions of a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) uniformly at random. The main idea is to express the CSP as a factored probability d...
There is a wide agreement on the use of norms in order to specify the expected behaviour of agents in open MAS. However, in highly regulated domains, where norms dictate what can a...