An access control system is often viewed as a state transition system. Given a set of access control policies, a general safety requirement in such a system is to determine whethe...
This paper describes an experiment in formal specification and validation performed in the context of an industrial joint project. The project involved an Italian company working...
Stefania Gnesi, Diego Latella, Gabriele Lenzini, C...
We describe a new algorithm for proving temporal properties expressed in LTL of infinite-state programs. Our approach takes advantage of the fact that LTL properties can often be...
Declarative modelling approaches in principle assume a notion of representation or representational content for the modelling concepts. The notion of representational content as di...
We present an iterative algorithm for enforcing policies represented in a first-order logic, which can, in particular, express all transmission-related clauses in the HIPAA Priva...