Previous studies on safety of program transformations with respect to performance considered two criteria: preserving performance within a constant factor and preserving complexit...
The primary objective of this paper is to present the deÿnition of a new dynamic, linear and modal logic for security protocols. The logic is compact, expressive and formal. It a...
Abstract. The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy, cooperation, and goal-oriented behavior. Mainstream object-ori...
We define the dynamic semantics of UML State Machines which integrate statecharts with the UML object model. The use of ASMs allows us (a) to rigorously model the event driven run...
This article describes a Java Card programming environment which to a large extent is generated from formal specifications of the syntax and semantics of Java Card, the JCRE (Jav...