Humans are "smart components" in a system, but cannot be directly programmed to perform; rather, their autonomy must be respected as a design constraint and incentives p...
The products of systems cannot always be judged at face value: the process by which they were obtained is also important. For instance, the rigour of a scientific experiment, the e...
Simon Miles, Paul T. Groth, Steve Munroe, Michael ...
Self-management is a key feature of autonomic systems. This often demands the dynamic reconfiguration of a distributed application. An important issue in the reconfiguration proce...
We present an approach for the design and analysis of an electronic voting machine based on a novel combination of formal verification and systematic testing. The system was desig...
Cynthia Sturton, Susmit Jha, Sanjit A. Seshia, Dav...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...