Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems

Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems.- Guiding Distributed Systems Synthesis with Language-Based Security Policies.- Termination Analysis of Java Bytecode.- Sessions and Pipelines for Structured Service Programming.- Modular Preservation of Safety Properties by Cookie-Based DoS-Protection Wrappers.- Behavioural Theory at Work: Program Transformations in a Service-Centred Calculus.- Mechanizing a Correctness Proof for a Lock-Free Concurrent Stack.- Symbolic Step Encodings for Object Based Communicating State Machines.- Modeling and Model Checking Software Product Lines.- Semantic Foundations and Inference of Non-null Annotations.- Redesign of the LMST Wireless Sensor Protocol through Formal Modeling and Statistical Model Checking.- A Minimal Set of Refactoring Rules for Object-Z.- Formal Modeling of a Generic Middleware to Ensure Invariant Properties.- CoBoxes: Unifying Active Objects and Structured Heaps.- VeriCool: An Automatic Verifier for a Concurrent Object-Oriented Language.- A Caller-Side Inline Reference Monitor for an Object-Oriented Intermediate Language.