Logic Programming Update Languages were proposed as an extension of logic programming that allows modeling the dynamics of knowledge bases where both extensional (facts) and intent...
Security is a major, frequent concern in extensible software systems such as Java Virtual Machines and the Common Language Runtime. These systems aim to enable simple, classic app...
The need of formal verification is a problem that involves all the fields in which sensible data are managed. In this context the verification of data streams became a fundamental...
Motivated by the challenging task of designing “secure” vote storage mechanisms, we study information storage mechanisms that operate in extremely hostile environments. In suc...
We report on the birth and evolution of Lua and discuss how it moved from a simple configuration language to a versatile, widely used language that supports extensible semantics, ...
Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo...