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ICFEM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Formal Engineering of XACML Access Control Policies in VDM++
We present a formal, tool-supported approach to the design and maintenance of access control policies expressed in the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML). Our aim is...
Jeremy Bryans, John S. Fitzgerald
TII
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Formal Methods for Systems Engineering Behavior Models
Abstract--Safety analysis in Systems Engineering (SE) processes, as usually implemented, rarely relies on formal methods such as model checking since such techniques, however power...
Charlotte Seidner, Olivier H. Roux
LOGCOM
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
Engineering AgentSpeak(L): A Formal Computational Model
Perhaps the most successful agent architectures, and certainly the best known, are those based on the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) framework. Despite the wealth of research that ...
Mark d'Inverno, Michael Luck
ICFCA
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Lessons Learned in Applying Formal Concept Analysis to Reverse Engineering
A key difficulty in the maintenance and evolution of complex software systems is to recognize and understand the implicit dependencies that define contracts that must be respecte...
Gabriela Arévalo, Stéphane Ducasse, ...
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
14 years 14 days ago
Formal Ontology Engineering in the DOGMA Approach
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...
Mustafa Jarrar, Robert Meersman