We develop an approach in which we model communication protocols via commitment machines. Commitment machines supply a content to protocol states and actions in terms of the social...
: This paper introduces the Calculating with Concepts (CC) technique, which has been developed to improve the precision of UML class diagrams and allows the formal reasoning based ...
We provide a proof using HOL and SPIN of convergence for the Routing Information Protocol (RIP), an internet protocol based on distance vector routing. We also calculate a sharp re...
Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Carl A. Gunter, Davor Obrad...
Abstract. Proof-carrying code and other applications in computer security require machine-checkable proofs of properties of machine-language programs. These in turn require axioms ...
Knowledge representation has always been a major problem in the design of medical decision support systems. In this paper we present a new methodology to represent and reason about...