Suppose that there are a number of alternative ways of operating a system, and a performance measure is available for comparing them. Simulation runs can be carried out to estimat...
Abstract. An impure language is one that combines functional and imperative constructs. We propose a method for ensuring termination of impure concurrent languages that makes it po...
Romain Demangeon, Daniel Hirschkoff, Davide Sangio...
Efficient evaluation strategies for declarative updates have rarely been investigated. Due to possible dependencies between the resulting database state and the order in which re...
Anonymity means that the identity of the user performing a certain action is maintained secret. The protocols for ensuring anonymity often use random mechanisms which can be descr...
— We consider the design of a sensor network for detecting an emitter who if present is known to be located in an interval but whose exact position is unknown. We seek to minimiz...