Abstract. Automatic debugging of UML class diagrams helps in the visual specification of software systems because users cannot detect errors in logical inconsistency easily. This p...
Aspects are intended to add needed functionality to a system or to treat concerns of the system by augmenting or changing the existing code in a manner that cross-cuts the usual c...
We embed an operational semantics for security protocols in the interactive theorem prover Isabelle/HOL and derive two strong protocol-independent invariants. These invariants allo...
There is a growing recognition of the need to apply formal mathematical methods in the design of \high con dence" computing systems. Such systems operate in safety critical co...
Background: Ambiguity is a problem in biosequence analysis that arises in various analysis tasks solved via dynamic programming, and in particular, in the modeling of families of ...