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DALT
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
A Protocol for Resource Sharing in Norm-Governed Ad Hoc Networks
Ad hoc networks may be viewed as computational systems whose members may fail to, or choose not to, comply with the rules governing their behaviour. We are investigating to what ex...
Alexander Artikis, Lloyd Kamara, Jeremy Pitt, Mare...
ICALP
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Linear and Branching Metrics for Quantitative Transition Systems
Abstract. We extend the basic system relations of trace inclusion, trace equivalence, simulation, and bisimulation to a quantitative setting in which propositions are interpreted n...
Luca de Alfaro, Marco Faella, Mariëlle Stoeli...
PPDP
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Nominal rewriting systems
We present a generalisation of first-order rewriting which allows us to deal with terms involving binding operations in an elegant and practical way. We use a nominal approach to...
Maribel Fernández, Murdoch Gabbay, Ian Mack...
SAS
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Generalized Records and Spatial Conjunction in Role Logic
Role logic is a notation for describing properties of relational structures in shape analysis, databases and knowledge bases. A natural fragment of role logic corresponds to two-va...
Viktor Kuncak, Martin C. Rinard
IRI
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Formal Framework for Design Component Contracts
– Building large software systems out of existing software components can save time and cost. These software components range from architectural and design components to binary c...
Jing Dong, Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan