Objects model the world, and state is fundamental to a faithful modeling. Engineers use state machines to understand and reason about state transitions, but programming languages ...
Jonathan Aldrich, Joshua Sunshine, Darpan Saini, Z...
: As soon as major protocol flaws were discovered empirically -- a good luck that is not older than the early 1990s -- this title question came up to the world. It was soon realise...
The growing importance of access control has led to the definition of numerous languages for specifying policies. Since these languages are based on different foundations, langua...
In this paper we present a new semantics, called Local Models Semantics, and use it to provide a foundation to reasoning with contexts. This semantics captures and makes precise t...
Abstract. An important goal of security in information systems is confidentiality. A confidentiality policy specifies which users should be forbidden to acquire what kind of inform...