Secure communication in distributed systems is notoriously hard to achieve due to the variety of attacks an adversary can mount, based on message interception, modification, redi...
Abstract. In this paper we present a general framework for passwordbased authenticated key exchange protocols, in the common reference odel. Our protocol is actually an abstraction...
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...
Abstract. We propose a denotational semantics for the two-level language of [GJ91, Gom92], and prove its correctness w.r.t. a standard denotational semantics. Other researchers (se...
In this paper, we view planning as a special case of reasoning about indefinite actions. We treat actions as predicates defined over a linear temporal order. This formalism permit...