Many recent research projects focus on language support for behavioral software contracts, that is, assertions that govern the boundaries between software building blocks such as ...
Abstract Web services choreography describes global models of service interactions among a set of participants. For an interaction to be executed, the participants taken part in it...
Security and reliability of network protocol implementations are essential for communication services. Most of the approaches for verifying security and reliability, such as forma...
Liveness temporal properties state that something “good” eventually happens, e.g., every request is eventually granted. In Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), there is no a priori bo...
—When model-checking reports that a property holds on a model, vacuity detection increases user confidence in this result by checking that the property is satisfied in the inte...