The refinement calculus of Back, Morgan, Morris, and others is based on monotone predicate transformers (weakest preconditions) where conjunctions stand for demonic choices betwee...
Planning is vital to a wide range of domains, including robotics, military strategy, logistics, itinerary generation and more, that both humans and computers find difficult. Col...
Walter S. Lasecki, Jeffrey P. Bigham, James F. All...
Abstract— This paper models (large) deformations of shelllike objects under the grasping of a robot hand. Classical nonlinear theory of thin shells [21, pp. 186-194] is generaliz...
This paper extends basic software-testing theory to software components and adds explicit state to the theory. The resulting theory e enough to abstractly model the construction o...
Evidence theory has been widely applied to uncertain reasoning. However, the evidence space and hypothesis space are each defined as a fixed set. If the theory is applied to solve...
Qingxiang Wu, Xi Huang, David A. Bell, Guilin Qi, ...