A key concern in safety engineering is understanding the overall emergent failure behaviour of a system, i.e., behaviour exhibited by the system that is outside its specification ...
Abstract. This paper presents a formal analysis of the device discovery phase of the Bluetooth wireless communication protocol. The performance of this process is the result of a c...
Marie Duflot, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman,...
Component-based software construction is widely used in a variety of applications, from embedded environments to grid computing. However, errors in these applications and systems ...
Logical formalisation of agent behaviour is desirable, not only in order to provide a clear semantics of agent-based systems, but also to provide the foundation for sophisticated r...
Nivea de Carvalho Ferreira, Michael Fisher, Wiebe ...
Security of civil aviation has become a major concern in recent years, leading to a variety of protective measures related to airport and aircraft security to be established by re...