This paper presents a formal framework for compositional reasoning about secure systems. A key insight is to view a trusted system in terms of the interfaces that the various comp...
Deepak Garg, Jason Franklin, Dilsun Kirli Kaynar, ...
We analyze three proof strategies commonly used in deductive verification of deterministic sequential programs formalized with operational semantics. The strategies are: (i) stepw...
Sandip Ray, Warren A. Hunt Jr., John Matthews, J. ...
Agents’ pro attitudes such as goals, intentions, desires, wishes, and judgements of satisfactoriness play an important role in how agents act rationally. To provide a natural an...
In modal logic, when adding a syntactic property to an axiomatisation, this property will semantically become true in all models, in all situations, under all circumstances. For i...
Hans P. van Ditmarsch, Wiebe van der Hoek, Barteld...
Friedman and Halpern have introduced the inference by plausibility structures, which provides semantics for various default logics. This is a generalization of known inferences, su...