- Performancestudiesof concurrencycontrol algorithms for conventional database systems have shown that, under most operating circumstances, locking protocols outperform optimistic ...
Aiming at explicit description of temporal meaning of causal relations generated by qualitative reasoning systems, this article proposes a causal time ontology which defines a se...
This paper presents assume-guarantee style substitutivity results for the recently published timed I/O automaton modeling framework. These results are useful for decomposing verifi...
Abstract. An important step in achieving robustness to run-time faults is the ability to detect and repair problems when they arise in a running system. Effective fault detection a...
Paulo Casanova, Bradley R. Schmerl, David Garlan, ...
With the proliferation of inexpensive cameras and the availability of high-speed wired and wireless networks, systems of distributed cameras are becoming an enabling technology fo...