Proof-Carrying Code (PCC) is a general framework for verifying the safety properties of machine-language programs. PCC proofs are usually written in a logic extended with language...
Nadeem Abdul Hamid, Zhong Shao, Valery Trifonov, S...
SystemC is widely used for modeling and simulation in hardware/software co-design. Due to the lack of a complete formal semantics, it is not possible to verify SystemC designs. In...
Rewriting is a computational paradigm that specifies the actions, but not the control. We introduce a hierarchical structure repreat a high level of abstraction, a form of control....
Probability features increasingly often in software and hardware systems: it is used in distributed co-ordination and routing problems, to model fault-tolerance and performance, a...
The paper describes some innovations related to the ongoing work on the GSA prototype, an integrated information retrieval agent. In order to improve the original system effective...
Giovambattista Ianni, Francesco Ricca, Francesco C...