Operational semantics of the Java Card Virtual Machine

Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming

Volumn 58, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 3-25

  Siveroni, Igor A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Java Card; Semantics

Indexed keywords

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SECURITY OF DATA; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES;

JAVA CARD; STATIC ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0346971008     PISSN: 15678326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlap.2003.07.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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