Workflows emphasize the partial order of activities, and the flow of data between activities. In contrast, cooperative processes emphasize the sharing of artefact, and its gradual ...
To focus the comparison of languages for model checking and transformation on criteria that matter in practical development, there is an urgent need for more, and more realistic, ...
The combination of message passing and locking to protect shared state is a useful concurrency pattern. However, programs that employ this pattern are susceptible to deadlock. That...
We have implemented parallelism primitives that permit an ACL2 programmer to parallelize execution of ACL2 functions. We (1) introduce logical definitions for these primitives, (...
Systems that authenticate a user based on a shared secret (such as a password or PIN) normally allow anyone to query whether the secret is a given value. For example, an ATM machi...