with existing analysis tools. Modular reasoning principles such as abstraction, compositional refinement, and assume-guarantee reasoning are well understood for architectural hiera...
Abstract. Formal verification of digital systems is achieved, today, using one of two main approaches: states exploration (mainly model checking and equivalence checking) or deduct...
Dynamics are an important aspect of agent models. Control of dynamics requires specific methods of specification that have their own specific semantics. This paper addresses speci...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Tr...
Abstract. We present a semantic model of typicality of concept members in description logics that accords well with a binary, globalist cognitive model of class membership and typi...
Katarina Britz, Johannes Heidema, Thomas Andreas M...
The combination of two security protocols, a simple shared-key communication protocol and the Di e-Hellman key distribution protocol, is modeled formally and proved correct. The m...