Formal methods use mathematical models for analysis and verification at any part of the
program life-cycle. We describe the state of the art in the industrial use of formal methods …

Formal methods have provided approaches for investigating software engineering
fundamentals and also have high potential to improve current practices in dependability …

An approach to software design that introduces a fully automated analysis giving designers
immediate feedback, now featuring the latest version of the Alloy language. In Software …

Blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum execute payment transactions securely, but their
performance is limited by the need for global consensus. Payment networks overcome this …

Attacks against computer systems can cause considerable economic or physical damage.
High-quality development of security-critical systems is difficult, mainly because of the …

This paper presents a novel discriminative learning method, called manifold discriminant
analysis (MDA), to solve the problem of image set classification. By modeling each image …

This contribution proposes a set of criteria that distinguish a grand challenge in science or
engineering from the many other kinds of short-term or long-term research problems that …

In today's world, critical infrastructure is often controlled by computing systems. This
introduces new risks for cyber attacks, which can compromise the security and disrupt the …

The Semantics of Circus Page 1 The Semantics of Circus Jim Woodcock1 and Ana Cavalcanti2
1 Oxford University Computing Laboratory Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, UK …

We present the first verification of full functional correctness for a range of linked data
structure implementations, including mutable lists, trees, graphs, and hash tables …