For several different reasons, such as changes in the business or technological environment, the configuration of a system may need to evolve during execution. Support for such ev...
Abstract. We describe a system for the automated certification of safety properties of NASA software. The system uses Hoare-style program verification technology to generate proof ...
We introduce a propositional encoding of the recursive path order with status (RPO). RPO is a combination of a multiset path order and a lexicographic path order which considers pe...
In the analysis of cryptographic protocols, a treacherous set of terms is one from which an intruder can get access to what was intended to be secret, by adding on to the top of a ...
Abstract. Variables make rule-based systems more abstract and expressive, as witnessed by term rewriting systems and two-level grammars. In this paper we show that variables can be...