The model checking problem for finite-state open systems (module checking) has been extensively studied in the literature, both in the context of environments with perfect and imp...
Abstract. We describe how the PVS verification system has been used to verify a safety property of a garbage collection algorithm, originally suggested by Ben-Ari. The safety prope...
We propose a refinement approach to language emptiness, which is based on the enumeration and the successive refinements of SCCs on over-approximations of the exact system. Our alg...
Chao Wang, Roderick Bloem, Gary D. Hachtel, Kavita...
Incentive mechanisms are essential components of peer-topeer systems for file sharing such as BitTorrent, since they enforce peers to share their resources and to participate. Re...
Thomas Silverston, Olivier Fourmaux, Jon Crowcroft
: The decentralised, cooperative and self-organising nature of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems help to mitigate and even overcome many challenges which overwhelm the traditional client-...