We formulate some research and development challenges that relate what a verifying compiler can verify to the definition and analysis of the application-content of programs, where...
—The Verifying Compiler (VC) project is a core component of the Dependable Systems Evolution Grand Challenge. The VC offers the promise of automatically proving that a program or...
WS-SecurityPolicy is a declarative configuration language for driving web services security mechanisms. We describe a formal sefor WS-SecurityPolicy, and propose a more abstract ...
Asynchronous exceptions, or interrupts, are important for writing robust, modular programs, but are traditionally viewed as being difficult from a semantic perspective. In this ar...
higher, more appropriate, level of abstraction. It still entails writing programs, usually by using symbols, keywords, and operational instructions to tell the computer what we wan...