People often use software for mundane tasks and expect it to be dependable enough for their needs. Unfortunately, the incomplete and imprecise specifications of such everyday sof...
Orna Raz, Rebecca B. Buchheit, Mary Shaw, Philip K...
In this paper we define and provide a general construction for a class of policies we call dynamic policies. In most existing systems, policies are implemented and enforced by ch...
Prasad Naldurg, Roy H. Campbell, M. Dennis Mickuna...
Multi-agent systems (MASs), comprised of autonomous entities with the aim to cooperate to reach a common goal, may be viewed as computational models of distributed complex systems ...
The Mondex Electronic Purse system [18] is an outstanding example of formal refinement techniques applied to a genuine industrial scale application, and notably, was the first ve...
Richard Banach, Michael Poppleton, Czeslaw Jeske, ...
— In recent applications of clustering such as gene expression microarray analysis, collaborative filtering, and web mining, object similarity is no longer measured by physical ...