We describe a method for proving the termination of graph transformation systems. The method is based on the fact that infinite reductions must include infinite `creation chains...
Abstract. In many cases, complex system behaviors are naturally modeled as nonlinear differential equations. However, these equations are often hard to analyze because of "sti...
: Fair exchange protocols play an important role in application areas such as e-commerce where protocol participants require mutual guarantees that a transaction involving exchange...
Enterprise networks are important, with size and complexity even surpassing carrier networks. Yet, the design of enterprise networks remains ad-hoc and poorly understood. In this p...
Yu-Wei Eric Sung, Sanjay G. Rao, Geoffrey G. Xie, ...
In order to develop security critical Information Systems, specifying security quality requirements is vitally important, although it is a very difficult task. Fortunately, there ...