Towards the modelling of secure pervasive computing systems: A paradigm of Context-Aware Secure Action System

Abstract

The design of security-critical pervasive systems is challenging due to that security constraints are often highly dependent on dynamically changing contexts. To increase the trustworthiness of pervasive systems, a dependable approach to system development must be followed, which enables seamless integration of the functional, security and context-awareness requirements. This paper proposes a paradigm which enables the specification of the functional, security and context-awareness requirements of a system in a single formalism, called Context-Aware Secure Action System (CASAS). Its syntax, formal semantics and pragmatics are presented, as well as algorithms and techniques for analysing the behaviour of a pervasive computing system.