This paper presents a formal framework for compositional reasoning about secure systems. A key insight is to view a trusted system in terms of the interfaces that the various comp...
Deepak Garg, Jason Franklin, Dilsun Kirli Kaynar, ...
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that A-Prolog is a powerful language for the construction of reasoning systems. In fact, A-Prolog allows to specify the initial situation, t...
Marcello Balduccini, Michael Gelfond, Monica Nogue...
We describe a scheme for moving living code between a set of distributed processes coordinated with unification based Linda operations, and its application to building a comprehen...
As a culture, object-orientation encourages programmers to create objects, both short- and long-lived, without concern for cost. Excessive object creation and initialization can ca...
The paper describes some innovations related to the ongoing work on the GSA prototype, an integrated information retrieval agent. In order to improve the original system effective...
Giovambattista Ianni, Francesco Ricca, Francesco C...