: We present an extension of the programming-by-contract (PBC) paradigm to a concurrent and distributed environment. Classical PBC is characterized by absolute conformance of code ...
Anders Starcke Henriksen, Tom Hvitved, Andrzej Fil...
Developing scalable coordination algorithms for multi-agent systems is a hard computational challenge. One useful approach, demonstrated by the Coverage Set Algorithm (CSA), explo...
The slowing pace of commodity microprocessor performance improvements combined with ever-increasing chip power demands has become of utmost concern to computational scientists. As...
Samuel Williams, John Shalf, Leonid Oliker, Shoaib...
I analyze some of the attacks against the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis--attacks based on the presumed need for symbolgrounding and non-symbolic processing for intelligent beha...
Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing (FGCS) systems aim at utilizing the large amount of idle computational resources available on the Internet. Such systems allow guest jobs to run on a ho...