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TSE
2002
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15 years 6 months ago
Behavior Protocols for Software Components
In this paper, we propose a means to enhance an architecture description language with a description of component behavior. A notation used for this purpose should be able to expr...
Frantisek Plasil, Stanislav Visnovsky
SAC
2008
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Data sharing vs. message passing: synergy or incompatibility?: an implementation-driven case study
One reasonable categorization of coordination models is into data sharing or message passing, based on whether the information necessary to coordination is persistently stored and...
Matteo Ceriotti, Amy L. Murphy, Gian Pietro Picco
SYNTHESE
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
Belief and contextual acceptance
I develop a strategy for representing epistemic states and epistemic changes that seeks to be sensitive to the difference between voluntary and involuntary aspects of our epistemi...
Eleonora Cresto
TACAS
2010
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Assume-Guarantee Verification for Probabilistic Systems
Abstract. We present a compositional verification technique for systems that exhibit both probabilistic and nondeterministic behaviour. We adopt an assume-guarantee approach to ver...
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David Parker,...
ICSE
2011
IEEE-ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Inference of field initialization
A raw object is partially initialized, with only some fields set to legal values. It may violate its object invariants, such as that a given field is non-null. Programs often ma...
Fausto Spoto, Michael D. Ernst