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JLP
2008
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Local variable scoping and Kleene algebra with tests
We explore the power of relational semantics and equational reasoning in the style of Kleene algebra for analyzing programs with mutable, statically scoped local variables. We prov...
Kamal Aboul-Hosn, Dexter Kozen
JLP
2008
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Communicating by compatibility
A bio-inspired language is presented. Its terms are processes enclosed into boxes with typed interaction sites. The main feature of the formalism lays in the fact that the key-loc...
Davide Prandi, Corrado Priami, Paola Quaglia
JLP
2008
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Automated verification of selected equivalences for security protocols
In the analysis of security protocols, methods and tools for reasoning about protocol behaviors have been quite effective. We aim to expand the scope of those methods and tools. W...
Bruno Blanchet, Martín Abadi, Cédric...
JLP
2008
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Composition mechanisms for retrenchment
Abstract. Retrenchment is a flexible model evolution formalism that arose as a reaction to the limitations imposed by refinement, and for which the proof obligations feature additi...
Richard Banach, Czeslaw Jeske, Michael Poppleton