The high-level decision making process of an autonomous robot can be seen as an hierarchically organised entity, where strategical decisions are made on the topmost layer, while th...
System administrators are end-users too. And as end-users, they develop tools, create web pages, write command-line scripts, use spreadsheets, and repurpose existing tools. In sho...
Eser Kandogan, Paul P. Maglio, Eben M. Haber, John...
This paper presents techniques for analyzing channel contract specifications in Microsoft Research’s Singularity operating system. A channel contract is a state machine that sp...
Abstract—Embedded system secondary storage size is often constrained, yet storage demands are growing as a result of increasing application complexity and storage of personal dat...
Self-stabilization is a strong property which guarantees that a network always resume a correct behavior starting from an arbitrary initial state. Weaker guarantees have later bee...