SRI International, Computer Science Laboratory

Grit Denker


Position:
Computer Scientist
Address:
Computer Science Laboratory,EL284
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave
Menlo Park California 94025, USA

Email: denker@csl.sri.com

Tel: +1 (650) 859-6058
Fax: +1 (650) 859-2844

 
 
Research Interests

 
  • specification and verification of communication and security issues of distributed systems,
  • semantic models,
  • (distributed) temporal logic and rewriting logic,
  • application of formal methods,
  • object-orientation,
  • specification of distributed (information) systems,
  • refinement
     
     
    Project Participation

     
  • The Semantic Firewall project will develop a formal basis, methods, and tools for Grid security. The problem is to enforce network security policies between trust domains in the presence of dynamically changing and unpredictable Grid communication needs. By combining conventional Grid security with semantic reasoning methods, we aim to provide dynamic, adaptive network security (see Semantic Firewall).

  • Formal Checklists for Remote Agent Dependability, a project to develop a formal framework for increasing the dependability of deep space mission remote systems (see RemoteAgents).

  • Artifactory Theory, a project that aims at providing semantic theories for artifacts (see Artifact Theory Group). In the context of the DARPA funded project DAML (DARPA Agent Markup Language) an Agent Mark-up language is built that allows users to provide machine-readable semantic annotations for specific communities of interest. We intend to generate core theories and knowledge creation tools for DAML.

  • TIPE, a project which is concerned with the specification and verification of cryptographic protocols (see TIPE/CAPSL)

  • Scalable Certification Revocation, funded by KDD R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan. This project aims at describing and enhancing the state of the art of public key infrastructures, with special emphasis on scalability for internet applications.

  • MAUDE: A Wide-Spectrum Formal Language for Secure Active Networks, a project in the area of specification of Active Networks using Maude and Rewriting Logic (see Maude and ActiveNets).
     
     
    Publications

      All papers are available as (compressed) postscript files. For an abstract just click on the title.
     
    Slides

      Slides of some recent talks are availabe as compressed postscript files.

    Curriculum Vitae



    My former TU Braunschweig homepage.


    Grit Denker: denker@csl.sri.com