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Formally Specifying and Proving Operational Aspects of Forensic Lucid in Isabelle
A Forensic Lucid intensional programming language has been proposed for
intensional cyberforensic analysis. In large part, the language is based on
various predecessor and codecessor Lucid dialects bound by the higher-order
intensional logic (HOIL) that is behind them. This work formally specifies the
operational aspects of the Forensic Lucid language and compiles a theory of its
constructs using Isabelle, a proof assistant system.Comment: 23 pages, 3 listings, 3 figures, 1 table, 1 Appendix with theorems,
pp. 76--98. TPHOLs 2008 Emerging Trends Proceedings, August 18-21, Montreal,
Canada. Editors: Otmane Ait Mohamed and Cesar Munoz and Sofiene Tahar. The
individual paper's PDF is at
http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~tphols08/TPHOLs2008/ET/76-98.pd
W-types in setoids
W-types and their categorical analogue, initial algebras for polynomial
endofunctors, are an important tool in predicative systems to replace
transfinite recursion on well-orderings. Current arguments to obtain W-types in
quotient completions rely on assumptions, like Uniqueness of Identity Proofs,
or on constructions that involve recursion into a universe, that limit their
applicability to a specific setting. We present an argument, verified in Coq,
that instead uses dependent W-types in the underlying type theory to construct
W-types in the setoid model. The immediate advantage is to have a proof more
type-theoretic in flavour, which directly uses recursion on the underlying
W-type to prove initiality. Furthermore, taking place in intensional type
theory and not requiring any recursion into a universe, it may be generalised
to various categorical quotient completions, with the aim of finding a uniform
construction of extensional W-types.Comment: 17 pages, formalised in Coq; v2: added reference to formalisatio
Defining Law Terms: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
The translation practice trends towards legal definitions seem to be more and more informed by the globalization and ‘Europeanisation’ processes now constituting a still broader context of legal communication rather than confined to the text of a legal instrument itself
Metamodel for Tracing Concerns across the Life Cycle
Several aspect-oriented approaches have been proposed to specify aspects at different phases in the software life cycle. Aspects can appear within a phase, be refined or mapped to other aspects in later phases, or even disappear.\ud
Tracing aspects is necessary to support understandability and maintainability of software systems. Although several approaches have been introduced to address traceability of aspects, two important limitations can be observed. First, tracing is not yet tackled for the entire life cycle. Second, the traceability model that is applied usually refers to elements of specific aspect languages, thereby limiting the reusability of the adopted traceability model.We propose the concern traceability metamodel (CTM) that enables traceability of concerns throughout the life cycle, and which is independent from the aspect languages that are used. CTM can be enhanced to provide additional properties for tracing, and be instantiated to define\ud
customized traceability models with respect to the required aspect languages. We have implemented CTM in the tool M-Trace, that uses XML-based representations of the models and XQuery queries to represent tracing information. CTM and M-Trace are illustrated for a Concurrent Versioning System to trace aspects from the requirements level to architecture design level and the implementation
Extensional and Intensional Strategies
This paper is a contribution to the theoretical foundations of strategies. We
first present a general definition of abstract strategies which is extensional
in the sense that a strategy is defined explicitly as a set of derivations of
an abstract reduction system. We then move to a more intensional definition
supporting the abstract view but more operational in the sense that it
describes a means for determining such a set. We characterize the class of
extensional strategies that can be defined intensionally. We also give some
hints towards a logical characterization of intensional strategies and propose
a few challenging perspectives
Reasoning About a Simulated Printer Case Investigation with Forensic Lucid
In this work we model the ACME (a fictitious company name) "printer case
incident" and make its specification in Forensic Lucid, a Lucid- and
intensional-logic-based programming language for cyberforensic analysis and
event reconstruction specification. The printer case involves a dispute between
two parties that was previously solved using the finite-state automata (FSA)
approach, and is now re-done in a more usable way in Forensic Lucid. Our
simulation is based on the said case modeling by encoding concepts like
evidence and the related witness accounts as an evidential statement context in
a Forensic Lucid program, which is an input to the transition function that
models the possible deductions in the case. We then invoke the transition
function (actually its reverse) with the evidential statement context to see if
the evidence we encoded agrees with one's claims and then attempt to
reconstruct the sequence of events that may explain the claim or disprove it.Comment: 18 pages, 3 figures, 7 listings, TOC, index; this article closely
relates to arXiv:0906.0049 and arXiv:0904.3789 but to remain stand-alone
repeats some of the background and introductory content; abstract presented
at HSC'09 and the full updated paper at ICDF2C'11. This is an updated/edited
version after ICDF2C proceedings with more references and correction
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