The growing importance of access control has led to the definition of numerous languages for specifying policies. Since these languages are based on different foundations, langua...
One of the advantages of temporal-logic model-checking tools is their ability to accompany a negative answer to the correctness query by a counterexample to the satisfaction of the...
In response to the problems that have arisen regarding the terminology and concepts of agent-oriented systems, previous work has described a formal framework for understanding agen...
Correctness of many hybrid and distributed systems require stability and convergence guarantees. Unlike the standard induction principle for verifying invariance, a theory for veri...
Increasingly systems are composed of parts: software components, and the interaction mechanisms (connectors) that enable them to communicate. When assembling systems from independ...