Traditional design representations are inadequate for generalized reasoning about modularity in design and its technical and economic implications. We have developed an architectu...
We show that any institution I satisfying some reasonable conditions can be transformed into another institution, Ibeh, which captures formally and abstractly the intuitions of add...
The calculus outlined in this paper provides a formal architectural framework for describing and reasoning about the properties of multi-user and mobile distributed interactive sys...
W. Greg Phillips, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Christoph...
Abstract. We describe a cryptographically sound formal logic for proving protocol security properties without explicitly reasoning about probability, asymptotic complexity, or the ...
Anupam Datta, Ante Derek, John C. Mitchell, Vitaly...
Abstract. The main goal of this paper is to apply rewriting termination technology —enjoying a quite mature set of termination results and tools— to the problem of proving auto...