Multithreaded programs are notoriously prone to race conditions, a problem exacerbated by the widespread adoption of multi-core processors with complex memory models and cache coh...
e Abstraction of Programs With Non-linear Computation Songtao Xia1 Ben Di Vito2 Cesar Munoz3 1 NASA Postdoc at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 2 NASA Langley Research Cen...
Abstract. Assertion-based contracts provide a powerful mechanism for stating invariants at module boundaries and for enforcing them uniformly. In 2002, Findler and Felleisen showed...
This paper describes a compositional proof strategy for verifying properties of requirements specifications. The proof strategy, which may be applied using either a model checker ...
Attribute staleness arises due to the physical distribution of authorization information, decision and enforcement points. This is a fundamental problem in virtually any secure di...
Ram Krishnan, Jianwei Niu, Ravi S. Sandhu, William...