A challenging unsolved security problem is how to specify and enforce system-wide security policies; this problem is even more acute in distributed systems with mutual distrust. T...
Lantian Zheng, Stephen Chong, Andrew C. Myers, Ste...
Discrete-event (DE) models are formal system specifications that have analyzable deterministic behaviors. Using a global, consistent notion of time, DE components communicate via...
—Advanced automotive control applications such as steer-by-wire are typically implemented as distributed systems comprising many embedded processors, sensors, and actuators inter...
Nagarajan Kandasamy, John P. Hayes, Brian T. Murra...
Antiquity is a wide-area distributed storage system designed to provide a simple storage service for applications like file systems and back-up. The design assumes that all serve...
Hakim Weatherspoon, Patrick R. Eaton, Byung-Gon Ch...
Requirements engineering (RE) encompasses a set of activities for eliciting, modelling, agreeing, communicating and validating requirements that precisely define the problem doma...