In this tutorial paper we present quantitative methods for analysing Web Services with the goal of understanding how they will perform under increased demand, or when asked to serv...
— The desire for a high mobility-to-size ratio in mobile robots has led to the exploration of many new methods of locomotion, one of which is tumbling. To the authors’ knowledg...
Abstract— Model checking can be aided by inductive invariants, small local properties that can be proved by simple induction. We present a way to automatically extract inductive ...
Michael L. Case, Alan Mishchenko, Robert K. Brayto...
In this paper we introduce an object-oriented coordination language for multi-agents systems. The beliefs and reasoning capabilities ent are specified in terms of a corresponding ...
Frank S. de Boer, Cees Pierik, Rogier M. van Eijk,...
This paper illustrates a technique for specifying the detailed timing, logical operation, and compositional circuit design of digital circuits in terms of ordinary state machines w...