In this paper, we examine the composition of firstclass protocols for multi-agent systems. First-class protocols are protocols that exist as executable specifications that agent...
In this paper, we introduce the new technique of HighConfidence Software Monitoring (HCSM), which allows one to perform software monitoring with bounded overhead and concomitantl...
Sean Callanan, David J. Dean, Michael Gorbovitski,...
Abstract. In this paper we investigate the existence of a deductive veri cation method based on a logic that describes pointer aliasing. The main idea of such a method is that the ...
The Maude-NRL Protocol Analyzer (Maude-NPA) is a tool and inference system for reasoning about the security of cryptographic protocols in which the cryptosystems satisfy different ...
Dependent types provide a strong foundation for specifying and verifying rich properties of programs through type-checking. The earliest implementations combined dependency, which...