eduction strategies for logic programs often use an abstraction operator to guarantee the niteness of the set of goals for which partial deductions are . Findingan abstraction ope...
Kowalski and Sergot's Event Calculus (EC) is a simple temporal formalism that, given a set of event occurrences, derives the maximal validity intervals (MVIs) over which prop...
Several formal languages have been proposed to encode privacy policies, ranging from the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), intended for communicating privacy policies to con...
Abstract. Proof-carrying code (PCC) allows a code producer to associate to a program a machine-checkable proof of its safety. In the original approach to PCC, the safety policy inc...
Abstract. Nested words are a restriction of the class of visibly pushdown languages that provide a natural model of runs of programs with recursive procedure calls. The usual conne...