We embed an operational semantics for security protocols in the interactive theorem prover Isabelle/HOL and derive two strong protocol-independent invariants. These invariants allo...
Abstract. A recent approach to automated assume-guarantee reasoning (AGR) for concurrent systems relies on computing environment assumptions for components using the L algorithm fo...
: Verifying design instead of code can be an effective and practical approach to obtaining verified software. This paper argues that proof scores are an attractive method for ver...
Kokichi Futatsugi, Joseph A. Goguen, Kazuhiro Ogat...
Service composition is emerging as an important paradigm for constructing distributed applications by combining and reusing independently developed component services. One key issu...
Dynamics are an important aspect of agent models. Control of dynamics requires specific methods of specification that have their own specific semantics. This paper addresses speci...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Tr...