UTP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Abstract. This paper presents a framework for reasoning about the security of confidential data within software systems. A novelty is that we use Hoare and He's Unifying Theor...
ICFEM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Springer
Designing concurrent or distributed systems with complex architectures while preserving a set of high-level requirements through all design steps is not a trivial task. Building up...
ENTCS
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
We introduce a general model of refinement. This is defined in terms of what contexts an entity can appear in, and what observations can be made of it in those contexts. We show e...
APAQS
2001
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2001
IEEE
With the increasing emphasis on dependability in complex, distributed systems, it is essential that system development can be done gradually and at different levels of detail. In ...