—Probabilistic properties are considered as the most important requirements for a variety of software systems, since they are used to formulate extra-functional requirements such...
Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) is a notation used in practice by protocol designers and system engineers. It is defined within an international standard (ITU Z120), and is also i...
This paper proposes a simulation-based methodology for validation of a system under design in an early phase of development. The key element of this approach is the visual speci...
Abstract. This paper argues for performing information-flow-based security analysis in the first phaseof the software development life cycle itself ie in the requirements elicita...
Abstract. We provide a framework for distributed systems that impose timing constraints on their executions. We propose a timed model of communicating finite-state machines, which...