Abstract—The principles and best practices of object oriented design require that modules in a program should match logical decomposition of the knowledge that the program implem...
Distributed information systems are critical to the functioning of many businesses; designing them to be dependable is a challenging but important task. We report our experience i...
Jeremy Bryans, John S. Fitzgerald, Alexander Roman...
Abstract—The World Wide Web offers easy sharing of information, but provides only few options for the protection of sensitive information and other sensitive resources. Tradition...
Sergej Zerr, Daniel Olmedilla, Juri Luca De Coi, W...
Heterogeneous multiprocessors are growingly important in the multi-core era due to their potential for high performance and energy efficiency. In order for software to fully real...
The need for a design language that is rigorous but accessible and intuitive is often at odds with the formal and mathematical nature of languages used for analysis. UML and Petri ...