Abstract. The assume-guarantee paradigm is a powerful divide-andconquer mechanism for decomposing a veri cation task about a system into subtasks about the individual components of...
Thomas A. Henzinger, Marius Minea, Vinayak S. Prab...
Abstract. Starting from algebraic properties that enable guessing lowentropy secrets, we formalize guessing rules for symbolic verification. The rules are suited for both off-line ...
This paper is about a novel rule-based approach for reasoning about qualitative spatiotemporal relations among technology-rich autonomous objects, to which we refer to as artifact...
Abstract. This paper develops a highly expressive semantic framework for program refinement that supports both temporal reasoning and reasoning about the knowledge of a single agen...
Abstract. Software systems evolve over time. From a component-based software engineering perspective, this means that either the components of the system need to change, or, if com...