Artificial Intelligence has contributed (formal) design models and software support tools to application areas such as architecture, engineering and software design. This paper exp...
We present an approach to assist the smart environment design process by means of automated validation of work-in-progress designs. The approach facilitates validation of not only ...
Mastering the complexity of programs and systems, particularly distributed systems, should lead to signi cant improvements in program and system understanding. In this paper we pr...
Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, Thomas Kunz,...
Software architecture research has thus far mainly addressed formal specification and analysis of coarse-grained software models. The formality of architectural descriptions, their...
We present a formal, tool-supported approach to the design and maintenance of access control policies expressed in the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML). Our aim is...