One of the most important steps towards effective software maintenance of a large complicated system is to understand how program features are spread over the entire system and th...
W. Eric Wong, Swapna S. Gokhale, Joseph Robert Hor...
Safety of interoperation of program fragments written in different safe languages may fail when the languages have different systems of computational effects: an exception raised b...
Psychological acceptability has been mentioned as a requirement for secure systems for as long as least privilege and fail safe defaults, but until now has been all but ignored in...
In order for mobile agents to be accepted as a basic technology for enabling electronic commerce, proper security mechanisms must be developed. Hosts must be protected from malici...
We present novel techniques for efficient controller synthesis for untimed and timed systems with respect to invariance and reachability properties. In the untimed case, we give al...