Formal Foundations for Networking (Dagstuhl Seminar 15071)
Nikolaj Bjørner, Nate Foster, P. Brighten Godfrey, Pamela Zave · DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics) · 2015
This report documents the program and outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 15071 "Formal Foundations for Networking." Networking is in the midst of a revolution being driven by rapidly expanding infrastructures and emerging software-defined networking architectures. There is a growing need for tools and methodologies that provide rigorous guarantees about performance, reliability, and security. This seminar brought together leading researchers and practitioners from the fields of formal methods, networking, programming languages, and security, to investigate the task of developing formal foundations for networks.