In this paper, we introduce an SMT-based method that automatically synthesizes a distributed self-stabilizing protocol from a given high-level specification and network topology. Unlike existing approaches, where synthesis algorithms require the explicit description of the set of legitimate states, our technique only needs the temporal behavior of the protocol. We extend our approach to synthes...

Multiagent systems offer a design paradigm used to conceptualise and implement systems composed of autonomous agents. Autonomy facilitates proactive independent behaviour yet in practice agents are constrained in order to ensure the system satisfies a desired social objective. Explicit constraints on agent behaviour, in the form of social norms, encourage this desirable system behaviour, yet re...

Timed Failure Propagation Graphs (TFPGs) are used in the design of safety-critical systems as a way of modeling failure propagation, and to evaluate and implement diagnostic systems. TFPGs are mostly produced manually, from a given dynamic system of greater complexity. In this paper we present a technique to automate the construction of TFPGs. It takes as input a set of failure mode and discrep...

Eclipse tutorials guide users step by step to perform programming tasks. However, as current executable tutorials can only guide users through one way, users’ specific requirements cannot be satisfied. In this paper, we propose an automated approach to synthesizing different tutorials to generate a tutorial that covers many ways. We use record and replay techniques to generate the original tuto...

The biosynthesis of proteins and other biomolecules is carried out with exquisite selectivity and efficiency, and with all building blocks present at the same time. In the laboratory, however, chemical synthesis is much less refined and is typically controlled by performing reactions with pure reactants, one step at a time and with purification steps in-between. Moreover, the formation of coval...

Automated solid phase synthesis enables rapid access to the linear and branched arabinofuranoside oligosaccharides. A simple purification step is sufficient to provide the conjugation ready oligosaccharides in good yield.

In this paper, we concentrate on incremental synthesis of timed automata for automatic addition of different types of bounded response properties. Bounded response – that something good will happen soon, in a certain amount of time – captures a wide range of requirements for specifying real-time and embedded systems. We show that the problem of automatic addition of a bounded response property ...

Solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) is a powerful technology for the chemical synthesis of peptides and small proteins. However, access to many targets is often complicated and sometimes precluded by the occurrence of so-called difficult sequences. When encountered during SPPS difficult sequences are associated with a collapse of the swollen resin volume, incomplete acylation and in the case o...