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ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
16 years 4 months ago
When Role Models Have Flaws: Static Validation of Enterprise Security Policies
Modern multiuser software systems have adopted RoleBased Access Control (RBAC) for authorization management. This paper presents a formal model for RBAC policy validation and a st...
Marco Pistoia, Stephen J. Fink, Robert J. Flynn, E...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Improving robustness of evolving exceptional behaviour in executable models
Executable models are increasingly being employed by development teams to implement robust software systems. Modern executable models offer powerful composition mechanisms that al...
Alessandro Garcia, Nélio Cacho, Thomas Cott...
SQJ
2002
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15 years 3 months ago
A General Model of Unit Testing Efficacy
Much of software engineering is targeted towards identifying and removing existing defects while preventing the injection of new ones. Defect management is therefore one important ...
Houman Younessi, Panlop Zeephongsekul, Winai Bodhi...
WOSP
2005
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Performance by unified model analysis (PUMA)
Evaluation of non-functional properties of a design (such as performance, dependability, security, etc.) can be enabled by design annotations specific to the property to be evalua...
C. Murray Woodside, Dorina C. Petriu, Dorin Bogdan...
CC
2008
Springer
124views System Software» more  CC 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Coqa: Concurrent Objects with Quantized Atomicity
This paper introduces a new language model, Coqa, for deeply embedding concurrent programming into objects. Every program written in our language has the desirable behaviors of ato...
Yu David Liu, Xiaoqi Lu, Scott F. Smith