Abstract. The analysis of message sequence charts (MSCs) is highly important in preventing common problems in communication protocols. Detecting race conditions, i.e., possible dis...
We examine a formal model of sponsored search in which advertisers can bid not only on search terms, but on search terms under specific contexts. A context is any auxiliary infor...
Eyal Even-Dar, Michael J. Kearns, Jennifer Wortman
In many software development projects, people tend to repeat same mistakes due to lack of shared knowledge from past experiences. Generally, it is very difficult to manually find ...
This paper studies the system parameters that affect the total cost of managing the multicast group on a router. A Petri net model is first proposed to describe the states and tra...
Yongjun Li, Wenhui Zhou, James Zijun Wang, Deyu Qi
At early stages in the design of real-time embedded applications, the timing attributes of the computational activities are often incompletely specified or subject to changes. Lat...