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ICFEM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Automating Refinement Checking in Probabilistic System Design
Abstract. Refinement plays a crucial role in "top-down" styles of verification, such as the refinement calculus, but for probabilistic systems proof of refinement is a pa...
Carlos Gonzalia, Annabelle McIver
IFIPTCS
2010
13 years 7 months ago
A Semiring-Based Trace Semantics for Processes with Applications to Information Leakage Analysis
Abstract. We propose a framework for reasoning about program security building on language-theoretic and coalgebraic concepts. The behaviour of a system is viewed as a mapping from...
Michele Boreale, David Clark, Daniele Gorla
FASE
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Control Dependence for Extended Finite State Machines
Abstract. Though there has been nearly three decades of work on program slicing, there has been comparatively little work on slicing for state machines. One of the primary challeng...
Kelly Androutsopoulos, David Clark, Mark Harman, Z...
UM
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Context-Dependent Personalised Feedback Prioritisation in Exploratory Learning for Mathematical Generalisation
Abstract. In this paper we address the problem of prioritising feedback on the basis of multiple heterogeneous pieces of information in exploratory learning. The problem arises whe...
Mihaela Cocea, George D. Magoulas
ICALP
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
What Is a Pure Functional?
Abstract. Given an ML function f : (int->int)->int how can we rigorously specify that f is pure, i.e., produces no side-effects other than those arising from calling its func...
Martin Hofmann, Aleksandr Karbyshev, Helmut Seidl