It is rare to give a semantic definition of a full-scale programming language, despite the many potential benefits. Partly this is because the available metalanguages for expressi...
Peter Sewell, Francesco Zappa Nardelli, Scott Owen...
We tackle the problem of providing rigorous formal foundations to current software engineering technologies for web services. We focus on two of the most used XML-based languages f...
Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco T...
: This paper presents a framework for representing formal semantics of a subset of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) notation in a higher-order logic, more specifically semantics...
NetSketch is a tool for the specification of constrained-flow applications and the certification of desirable safety properties imposed thereon. NetSketch assists system integr...
Azer Bestavros, Assaf J. Kfoury, Andrei Lapets, Mi...
Software architecture addresses the high level specification, design and analysis of software systems. Formal models can provide essential underpinning for architectural descripti...
John Herbert, Bruno Dutertre, Robert A. Riemenschn...