Polyhedra are widely used in model checking and abstract interpretation. Polyhedral analysis is effective when the relationships between variables are linear, but suffers from im...
A delay abstraction of a combinational module is a compact representation of the delay information of the module, which carries effective pin-to-pin delay for each primary-input/pr...
When developing concurrent software, a proper engineering practice is to choose a good level of abstraction for expressing concurrency control. Ideally, this level should provide p...
Claude Kaiser, Christophe Pajault, Jean-Fran&ccedi...
The file is a well-understood and very simple abstraction, which has been successfully used in both centralized and distributed systems. However, files are not expressive enough t...
Abstract. Many environments in which people and computer agents interact involve deploying resources to accomplish tasks and satisfy goals. This paper investigates the way that the...
Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Avi Pfeffer, Stuart...