Network programming is notoriously hard to understand: one has to deal with a variety of protocols (IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP etc), concurrency, packet loss, host failure, timeouts, the c...
Multi-agent systems comprise multiple, deliberative agents embedded in and recreating patterns of interactions. Each agent’s execution consumes considerable storage and calculat...
This paper discusses a methodology used on an industrial hardware development project to validate various cache-coherence protocol components. The idea is to use a high level model...
Jesse D. Bingham, John Erickson, Gaurav Singh, Fle...
Abstract. Rebeca is an actor-based language which has been successfully applied to model concurrent and distributed systems. The semantics of Rebeca in labeled transition system is...
Marjan Sirjani, Mohammad Mahdi Jaghoori, Christel ...
Abstract. The actor model provides high-level concurrency abstractions to coordinate simultaneous computations by message passing. Languages implementing the actor model such as Er...
Martin Sulzmann, Edmund S. L. Lam, Peter Van Weert