Systems of autonomous agents providing automated services over the Web are fast becoming a reality. Often these agent systems are constructed using procedural architectures that pr...
Abstract: The need of confidence that a product or service actually possesses declared behavioural / structural characteristics is the main reason for certification. It seems that ...
Many dynamic programming language features, such as implicit declaration, reflection, and code generation, make it difficult to verify the existence of identifiers through standar...
We present an original method for generating monitors that capture the occurrence of events, specified by logical and temporal properties under the form of assertions in declarati...
Declarative policies play a central role in many modern software systems. Engineering policies and their interactions with programs raises many interesting open questions. Categor...
Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Daniel J. Dou...