Abstract. This paper describes a practical approach for implementing certain types of domain-specific languages with extensible compilers. Given a compiler with one or more front-...
Abstract. We develop a logic for reasoning about object-oriented programs. The logic is for a language with an imperative semantics and aliasing, and accounts for self-reference in...
In this article, we present our efforts1 on realizing transformation independence in open, extensible, and highly distributed multimedia information The main focus is on the abstra...
Abstract. We present a new model that provides clear and precise semantics for authorization. The semantics is independent from underling security mechanisms and is separate from i...
Abstract. We compare Kripke models and hypercube systems, a simpli ed notion of Interpreted Systems, as semantic structures for reasoning about knowledge. Our method is to de ne a ...