Cyber & formal methods publications

In this paper, we construct a rewrite closure for term rewrite systems that satisfy two properties: the right-hand side term in each rewrite rule contains no repeated variable (right-linear) and…

Efficient and effective means are needed that exploit structure inherent in one layer of architecture to provide key properties to enable reliable execution at other levels.

We focus on coordinating actors and roles through message manipulations based on event-based timing constraints. In addition, different types of timing constraints are generalized into a semiring-based constraint structure; and…

Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation is an international journal that presents a broad-spectrum forum for discussion of results and ideas on programming with higher-order and symbolic facilities: first-class functions and continuations,…

A systematic approach to digital forensic engineering acknowledges the close, intertwine relationship between digital forensics and information security.

In this paper, we argue that analysis tools based on recent advances in formal methods (SMT solvers, infinite bounded model checkers, and k-induction) can provide suitable modeling notations, effective analysis,…

We present a unifying framework that extends the CP formalism in both model and solutions, to tackle ill-defined combinatorial problems with incomplete or erroneous data.

We explore the theoretical limits for doing automatic invariant checking and show that invariant checking is decidable for a large class of programs that includes some recursive programs.

A system for private stream searching, introduced by Ostrovsky and Skeith, allows a client to provide an untrusted server with an encrypted search query.

Given a theory 𝕋T, a set of equations E, and a single equation e, the uniform word problem (UWP) is to determine if 𝐸⇒𝑒E⇒e in the theory 𝕋T.

We present a novel alert correlation approach based on the factor analysis statistical technique for malware characterization. Our approach involves mechanically computing a set of abstract quantities, called factors, for expressing…