WS-SecurityPolicy is a declarative language for configuring web services security mechanisms. We describe a formal semantics for WS-SecurityPolicy and propose a more abstract lang...
In this chapter we will introduce description logics, a family of logic-based knowledge representation languages that can be used to represent the terminological knowledge of an a...
During its lifetime, embedded systems go through multiple changes to their runtime architecture. That is, threads, processes, and processor are added or removed to/from the softwa...
Jointly deployed aspects may interact with each other. While some interactions might be intended, unintended interactions (interferences) can break a program. Detecting and resolv...
We present a (the rst?) sound and relatively complete Hoare logic for a simple imperative programming language including mutually recursive procedures with call-by-value parameters...