Assume-guarantee reasoning has long been advertised as an important method for decomposing proof obligations in system veri cation. Re nement mappings (homomorphisms) have long bee...
Thomas A. Henzinger, Shaz Qadeer, Sriram K. Rajama...
The practical implementation and use of a mediator for fixed income securities analysis demonstrated the potential for extending the application of conceptual modeling from the sys...
Norms defined by institutions and enforced by organizations have been put forward as a mechanism to increase the efficiency and reliability of electronic transactions carried out ...
While there has been much work on developing frameworks and models of norms and normative systems, consideration of the impact of norms on the practical reasoning of agents has at...
Abstract. In the area of networks, a common method to enforce a security policy expressed in a high-level language is based on an ad-hoc and manual rewriting process [24]. We argue...