Overview
Background
Larissa Meinicke's research interests include mathematical notations and techniques for the formal specification and development of computing systems; probabilistic systems; computer security; abstract algebra and refinement algebra; real-time and fault-tolerant systems.
Dr Meinicke is currently a lecturer in the Division of Systems and Software Engineering Research in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.
She completed her PhD in the area of Computer Science at the University of Queensland in 2008 under the supervision of Professor Ian Hayes. Since then she has worked as a researcher at the Department of Information Technologies at Åbo Akademi University in Finland, both as a part of Professor Ralph-Johan Back’s Formal Methods and Programming research group, and as a member of the European Commission for Information and Communication Technologies project "Deploy".
From 2009 to 2011 Dr Meinicke worked on the ARC Research project "Hidden-state modelling for modular analysis of information flow, protection and risk evaluation" in conjunction with Associate Professor Annabelle McIver and Professor Carroll Morgan at Macquarie University in Sydney. Information about this research may be found at the Specification and Development of Probabilistic Systems page (below).
Availability
- Dr Larissa Meinicke is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours), The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Works
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2024
Book Chapter
Reasoning about distributive laws in a concurrent refinement algebra
Meinicke, Larissa A. and Hayes, Ian J. (2024). Reasoning about distributive laws in a concurrent refinement algebra. The practice of formal methods: essays in honour of Cliff Jones, part II. (pp. 1-22) edited by Ana Cavalcanti and James Baxter. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-66673-5_1
2024
Book Chapter
Practical rely/guarantee verification of an efficient lock for seL4 on multicore architectures
Colvin, Robert J., Hayes, Ian J., Heiner, Scott, Höfner, Peter, Meinicke, Larissa and Su, Roger C. (2024). Practical rely/guarantee verification of an efficient lock for seL4 on multicore architectures. The practice of formal methods: essays in honour of Cliff Jones, Part I. (pp. 65-87) edited by Ana Cavalcanti and James Baxter. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-66676-6_4
2024
Conference Publication
Restructuring a concurrent refinement algebra
Hayes, Ian J., Meinicke, Larissa A. and Evangelou-Oost, Naso (2024). Restructuring a concurrent refinement algebra. 21st International Conference, RAMiCS 2024, Prague, Czech Republic, 19-22 August 2024. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-68279-7_9
2023
Conference Publication
Using cylindric algebra to support local variables in rely/guarantee concurrency
Meinicke, Larissa A. and Hayes, Ian J. (2023). Using cylindric algebra to support local variables in rely/guarantee concurrency. IEEE/ACM 11th International Conference on Formal Methods in Software Engineering (FormaliSE), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 14-15 May 2023. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/formalise58978.2023.00019
2023
Book Chapter
Trace Models of Concurrent Valuation Algebras
Evangelou-Oost, Naso, Meinicke, Larissa, Bannister, Callum and Hayes, Ian J. (2023). Trace Models of Concurrent Valuation Algebras. Formal Methods and Software Engineering. (pp. 118-136) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-7584-6_8
2023
Book Chapter
Specifying and reasoning about shared-variable concurrency
Hayes, Ian J., Jones, Cliff B. and Meinicke, Larissa A. (2023). Specifying and reasoning about shared-variable concurrency. Theories of programming and formal methods: essays dedicated to Jifeng He on the occasion of his 80th birthday. (pp. 110-135) edited by Jonathan P. Bowen, Qin Li and Qiwen Xu. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-40436-8_5
2019
Conference Publication
Developing an Algebra for Rely/Guarantee Concurrency: Design Decisions and Challenges
Hayes, Ian J. and Meinicke, Larissa A. (2019). Developing an Algebra for Rely/Guarantee Concurrency: Design Decisions and Challenges. UTP: 7th International Symposium on Unifying Theories of Programming, Porto, Portugal, 8 October 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-31038-7_9
2019
Conference Publication
Cylindric Kleene Lattices for Program Construction
Dongol, Brijesh, Hayes, Ian, Meinicke, Larissa and Struth, Georg (2019). Cylindric Kleene Lattices for Program Construction. MPC: 13th International Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction, Porto, Portugal, 7–9 October 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-33636-3_8
2018
Journal Article
A synchronous program algebra: a basis for reasoning about shared-memory and event-based concurrency
Hayes, Ian J., Meinicke, Larissa A., Winter, Kirsten and Colvin, Robert J. (2018). A synchronous program algebra: a basis for reasoning about shared-memory and event-based concurrency. Formal Aspects of Computing, 31 (2), 133-163. doi: 10.1007/s00165-018-0464-4
2018
Conference Publication
Encoding fairness in a synchronous concurrent program algebra
Hayes, Ian J. and Meinicke, Larissa A. (2018). Encoding fairness in a synchronous concurrent program algebra. 22nd International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2018 Held as Part of the Federated Logic Conference, FloC 2018, Oxford, United Kingdom, 15-17 July 2018. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-95582-7_13
2018
Conference Publication
Type capabilities for object-oriented programming languages
Wu, Xi, Lu, Yi, Meiring, Patrick A., Hayes, Ian J. and Meinicke, Larissa A. (2018). Type capabilities for object-oriented programming languages. 20th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2018, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 12-16 November 2018. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-02450-5_13
2017
Journal Article
Designing a semantic model for a wide-spectrum language with concurrency
Colvin, Robert J., Hayes, Ian J. and Meinicke, Larissa A. (2017). Designing a semantic model for a wide-spectrum language with concurrency. Formal Aspects of Computing, 29 (5), 1-23. doi: 10.1007/s00165-017-0416-4
2017
Conference Publication
Capabilities for Java: Secure access to resources
Hayes, Ian J., Wu, Xi and Meinicke, Larissa A. (2017). Capabilities for Java: Secure access to resources. 15th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS 2017, Suzhou, People's Republic of China, 27-29 November 2017. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-71237-6_4
2017
Conference Publication
Evaluating quality of security testing of the JDK
Krishnan, Padmanabhan, O’Donoghue, Rebecca, Loh, Jerome and Meinicke, Larissa (2017). Evaluating quality of security testing of the JDK. 8th ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Automated Software Testing, A-TEST 2017, co-located with the International ESEC/FSE Conference, FSE 2017, Paderborn, Germany, 4-5 September 2017. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3121245.3121246
2016
Conference Publication
An algebra of synchronous atomic steps
Hayes, Ian J., Colvin, Robert J., Meinicke, Larissa A., Winter, Kirsten and Velykis, Andrius (2016). An algebra of synchronous atomic steps. 21st International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2016, Limassol, Cyprus, 9-11 November 2016. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-48989-6_22
2015
Journal Article
Hidden-Markov program algebra with iteration
McIver, Annabelle, Meinicke, Larissa and Morgan, Carroll (2015). Hidden-Markov program algebra with iteration. Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, 25 (S02), 320-360. doi: 10.1017/S0960129513000625
2015
Conference Publication
Designing for visually impaired developers
Epifani, Andrea, Boden, Marie, Meinicke, Larissa, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2015). Designing for visually impaired developers. World Conference of the International Association of Design Research, Brisbane, Australia, 2-5 November 2015. The International Association of Societies of Design Research.
2014
Conference Publication
Abstract channels and their robust information-leakage ordering
McIver, Annabelle, Morgan, Carroll, Smith, Geoffrey, Espinoza, Barbara and Meinicke, Larissa (2014). Abstract channels and their robust information-leakage ordering. 3rd International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, POST 2014 - Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2014, Grenoble, France, 5 -13 April 2014. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-54792-8_5
2014
Journal Article
Abstractions of non-interference security: probabilistic versus possibilistic
Hoang, Thai Son, McIver, Annabelle K., Meinicke, Larissa, Morgan, Carroll C., Sloane, Anthony and Susatyo, Enrico (2014). Abstractions of non-interference security: probabilistic versus possibilistic. Formal Aspects of Computing, 26 (1), 169-194. doi: 10.1007/s00165-012-0237-4
2014
Conference Publication
Invariants, well-founded statements and real-time program algebra
Hayes, Ian J. and Meinicke, Larissa (2014). Invariants, well-founded statements and real-time program algebra. 19th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2014, Singapore, 12 - 16 May 2014. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-06410-9_23
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Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Concurrent valuation algebras
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Ian Hayes
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Doctor Philosophy
A hybrid model for a concurrent refinement algebra
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Ian Hayes
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Doctor Philosophy
Design and verification of concurrent systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Ian Hayes
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