The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy and cooperation. Mainstream object-oriented modeling techniques do not a...
Most approaches for model checking software are based on ration of abstract models from source code, which may greatly reduce the search space, but may also introduce errors that a...
A new class of models, formalisms and mechanisms has recently evolved for describing concurrent and distributed computations based on the concept of “coordination”. The purpos...
We demonstrate the feasibility of using the XSB tabled logic programming system as a programmable fixed-point engine for implementing efficient local model checkers. In particular,...
Y. S. Ramakrishna, C. R. Ramakrishnan, I. V. Ramak...
A goal of computing and networking systems is to limit administrative requirements for users and operators. A technical systems should be able to configure itself as much as possi...