Testing methods are compared in a model where program failures are detected and the software changed to eliminate them. The question considered is whether it is better to use test...
Phyllis G. Frankl, Richard G. Hamlet, Bev Littlewo...
-- This paper presents an efficient method for the timing verification of concurrent systems, modeled as labeled Timed Petri nets. The verification problems we consider require us ...
Fairness is an important concept in design and implementation of distributed systems. At the specification level, fairness usually serves as an assumption for proving liveness. At ...
This paper describes the design and implementation of NAOS, an active rule component in the object-oriented database system 02. The contribution of this work is related to two mai...
We rationally reconstruct the core of the Coccinelle system, used for automating and documenting collateral evolutions in Linux device drivers. A denotational semantics of the syst...