Norms represent what ought to be done, and their fulfillment can be seen as benefiting the overall system, society or organisation. However, individual agent goals (desire) may con...
We consider an extension of integer linear arithmetic with a "star" operator takes closure under vector addition of the solution set of a linear arithmetic subformula. We...
Ideally, a model checking tool should successfully tackle state space explosion for complete system validation, while providing short counterexamples when an error exists. Techniqu...
Portable low-level C programs must often support multiple equivalent in-memory layouts of data, due to the byte or bit order of the compiler, architecture, or external data formats...
One of the key issues with the practical applicability of Proof-Carrying Code (PCC) and its related methods is the difficulty in communicating the proofs which are inherently larg...