Assume-guarantee reasoning has long been advertised as an important method for decomposing proof obligations in system veri cation. Re nement mappings (homomorphisms) have long bee...
Thomas A. Henzinger, Shaz Qadeer, Sriram K. Rajama...
er uses an abstract machine approach to compare the mechanisms of two parallel machines: the J-Machine and the CM-5. High-level parallel programs are translated by a single optimi...
Ellen Spertus, Seth Copen Goldstein, Klaus E. Scha...
Chaotic iteration sequences is a method for approximating fixpoints of monotonic functions proposed by Patrick and Radhia Cousot. It may be used in specialisation algorithms for ...
Method inheritance and data abstraction are central features of objectoriented programming that are attained through a hierarchical organization of classes. Recent studies have sh...
Distributed computing is increasingly important at a time when the doubling of the number of transistors on a processor every 18 months no longer translates in a doubling of speed ...