Model checking is emerging as a popular technology for reasoning about behavioral properties of a wide variety of software artifacts including: requirements models, architectural ...
Common knowledge logic is meant to describe situations of the real world where a group of agents is involved. These agents share knowledge and make strong hypotheses on the knowled...
Emerging electronic commerce services that use public-key cryptography on a mass-market scale require sophisticated mechanisms for managing trust. For example, any service that rec...
We describe a policy language and implement its associated proof checking system. In our system, agents can distribute data along with usage policies in a decentralized architectu...
J. G. Cederquist, Ricardo Corin, M. A. C. Dekker, ...
A fundamental result of Büchi states that the set of monadic second-order formulas true in the structure (Nat, <) is decidable. A natural question is: what monadic predicates ...