Abstract—Nondeterminism is used as a means of underspecification or implementation choice in specifications, and it is often necessary if part of a system or the environment is...
Power efficient design of real-time embedded systems based on programmable processors becomes more important as system functionality is increasingly realized through software. Th...
Software agents' ability to interact within different open systems, designed by different groups, presupposes an agreement on an unambiguous definition of a set of concepts, ...
We study (collapsible) higher-order pushdown systems -- theoretically robust and well-studied models of higher-order programs -- along with their natural subclass called (collapsi...
In this paper, we discuss what we believe is the grand challenge facing the software quality research community: the ability to accurately define, in the very earliest stages of d...