2 Technical background 4 2.1 Martin-Löf Type Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.1 Intuition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.2 Kinds of judgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1.3 Rules for context formation and substitution . . . . . . . 8 2.1.4 Congruence rules for definitional equality . . . . . . . . . 9 2.1.5 Rules for ...

This first year report details the background, and motivation to the hypothesis : ”It is more efficient in terms of energy consumption to relay traffic through a set of nodes than to modify the transmission power [or move].”. Set out in this report are a series of experiments designed to test the hypothesis in a hostile environment where the collection of nodes have a collective task to carry o...

I began my PhD research in The Foundations of Computer Security at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory on October 1, 2005. My initial research interest was the application of formal tools, such as theorem provers and model checkers, to the verification of security protocols. Realizing that this is both a broad and mature field, I started looking for an open topic on which to focus m...