Manna and Pnueli have extensively shown how a mixture of first-order logic (FOL) and discrete Linear time Temporal Logic (LTL) is sufficient to precisely state verification problem...
Business contracts tend to be complex. In current practice, contracts are often designed by hand and adopted by their participants after, at best, a manual analysis. This paper mo...
Nirmit Desai, Nanjangud C. Narendra, Munindar P. S...
There is a growing recognition of the need to apply formal mathematical methods in the design of \high con dence" computing systems. Such systems operate in safety critical co...
Abstract. Formal methods have been extensively applied to the certification of cryptographic protocols. However, most of these works make the perfect cryptography assumption, i.e....
Most symbolic model checkers are based on either Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs), which may grow exponentially large, or Satisfiability (SAT) solvers, whose time requirements rapi...