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ATAL
2005
Springer
16 years 3 days ago
Design by Contract Deontic Design Language for Multiagent Systems
Abstract. Design by contract is a well known theory that views software construction as based on contracts between clients (callers) and suppliers (routines), relying on mutual obl...
Christophe Garion, Leendert van der Torre
AUTOMATICA
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
A risk-sensitive approach to total productive maintenance
While risk-sensitive (RS) approaches for designing plans of total productive maintenance are critical in manufacturing systems, there is little in the literature by way of theoret...
Abhijit Gosavi
TCS
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Alternating states for dual nondeterminism in imperative programming
The refinement calculus of Back, Morgan, Morris, and others is based on monotone predicate transformers (weakest preconditions) where conjunctions stand for demonic choices betwee...
Wim H. Hesselink
SAC
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Adaptive internet services through performance and availability control
Cluster-based multi-tier systems provide a means for building scalable Internet services. Building adaptive Internet services that are able to apply appropriate system sizing and ...
Jean Arnaud, Sara Bouchenak
WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
How to make web sites talk together: web service solution
Integrating web sites to provide more efficient services is a very promising way in the Internet. For example searching house for rent based on train system or preparing a holiday...
Hoang Pham Huy, Takahiro Kawamura, Tetsuo Hasegawa