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Relations, Constraints and Abstractions: Using the Tools of Logic Programming in the Security Industry

Andy King

In Puri Arenas and Damiano Zanardini, editors, Proceedings on Logic-Based Methods in Programming Envrionments, pages 1-7, Udine, December 2008 Invited paper.

Abstract

Logic programming is sometimes described as relational programming: a paradigm in which the programmer specifies and composes n-ary relations using systems of constraints. An advanced logic programming environment will provide tools that abstract these relations to transform, optimise, or even verify the correctness of a logic program. This talk will show that these concepts, namely relations, constraints and abstractions, turn out to also be important in the reverse engineer process that underpins the discovery of bugs within the security industry.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{2895,
author = {Andy King},
title = {Relations, {C}onstraints and {A}bstractions: {U}sing the {T}ools of {L}ogic {P}rogramming in the {S}ecurity {I}ndustry},
month = {December},
year = {2008},
pages = {1--7},
keywords = {},
note = {Invited paper},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2008/2895},
    publication_type = {inproceedings},
    submission_id = {17169_1239786182},
    booktitle = {Proceedings on Logic-Based Methods in Programming Envrionments},
    editor = {Puri Arenas and Damiano Zanardini},
    address = {Udine},
    refereed = {yes},
}

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