The reliable authentication of user attributes is an important prerequisite for the security of web based applications. Digital certificates are widely used for that purpose. How...
The formal specification of design patterns is widely recognised as being vital to their effective and correct use in software development. It can clarify the concepts underlying ...
The paper presents the theoretical foundations and an algorithm to reduce the efforts of testing physical systems. A test is formally described as a set of stimuli (inputs to the ...
: We introduce infrastructure monitoring as an application domain that demands decentralized system designs. This is motivated by the large scale of these systems, the heterogeneit...
This paper builds on product line CCS (PL-CCS), an algebraic approach to modeling the behavior of software product lines. The semantics of PL-CCS specifications is given in terms ...
Alexander Gruler, Martin Leucker, Kathrin D. Schei...