We develop an availability solution, called SafetyNet, that uses a unified, lightweight checkpoint/recovery mechanism to support multiple long-latency fault detection schemes. At...
Daniel J. Sorin, Milo M. K. Martin, Mark D. Hill, ...
Abstract. Advances in VLSI technology have lead to a tremendous increase in the density and number of devices that can be manufactured in a single microchip. One of the interesting...
Krishna V. Palem, Surendranath Talla, Weng-Fai Won...
The Irish School of Constructive Mathematics (M♣ c ), which extends the VDM, exploits an algebraic notation based upon monoids and their morphisms for the purposes of abstract mo...
Abstract. In requirements engineering use cases are employed to describe the ow of events and the occurrence of states in a future information system. Use cases consist of a set of...
This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the basic issues surrounding the design and implementation of intelligent agents. It begins by motivating the idea of an agent, present...