Research on agent communication languages has typically taken the speech acts paradigm as its starting point. Despite their manifest attractions, speech-act models of communicatio...
We tackle the problem of providing rigorous formal foundations to current software engineering technologies for web services. We focus on two of the most used XML-based languages f...
Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco T...
High assurance security is di cult to achieve in distributed computer systems and databases because of their complexity, non-determinism and inherent heterogeneity. The practical ...
To provide formal foundations to current (web) services technologies, we put forward using COWS, a process calculus for specifying, combining and analysing services, as a uniform ...
Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco T...
This paper presents experiments on formal validation of Java applets. It describes a tool that has been developed at the Gemplus Research Labs. This tool allows to formally prove J...