Sketching is a software synthesis approach where the programmer develops a partial implementation — a sketch — and a separate specification of the desired functionality. The ...
Access modifiers like public and private let the programmer control the accessibility of class members. Restricted accessibility supports encapsulation, i.e., the hiding of impleme...
Information flow is an important security property that must be incorporated from the ground up, including at hardware design time, to provide a formal basis for a system’s roo...
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An aspect observes the execution of a base program; when certain actions occur, the aspect runs some extra code of its own. In the AspectJ language, the observations that an aspec...
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Synchronous languages like Esterel have been widely adopted for designing reactive systems in safety-critical domains such as avionics. Specifications written in Esterel are based...
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