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ISORC
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
v-Promela: A Visual, Object-Oriented Language for SPIN
We describe the design of VIP, a graphical front-end to the model checker SPIN. VIP supports a visual formalism, called v-Promela that connects the model checker to modern hierarc...
Stefan Leue, Gerard J. Holzmann
CA
2003
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
XSTEP: A Markup Language for Embodied Agents
In this paper we propose an XML-based markup language, called XSTEP, for embodied agents, based on the scripting language STEP. XSTEP is the XML-based successor of STEP. The scrip...
Zhisheng Huang, Anton Eliëns, Cees T. Visser
ISORC
2006
IEEE
16 years 20 days ago
Looking Ahead in Open Multithreaded Transactions
Open multithreaded transactions constitute building blocks that allow a developer to design and structure the execution of complex distributed systems featuring cooperative and co...
Maxime Monod, Jörg Kienzle, Alexander Romanov...
PDP
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Bulk-Synchronous On-Line Crawling on Clusters of Computers
This paper describes the design of a crawler devised to perform the periodic retrieval of Web documents for a search engine able to accept on-line updates in a concurrent manner. ...
Mauricio Marín, Carolina Bonacic
PPOPP
2005
ACM
16 years 6 days ago
Revocable locks for non-blocking programming
In this paper we present a new form of revocable lock that streamlines the construction of higher level concurrency abstractions such as atomic multi-word heap updates. The key id...
Tim Harris, Keir Fraser