The core problem in risk analysis - determining exploitable paths between attackers and system assets is essentially a problem of determining information flow. It is relatively st...
Interfaces as defined in the JAVA programming language can enhance both decoupling and comprehensibility of large code bases. Several researchers have pointed out this key role of...
The vast number of design options in replicated databases requires efficient analytical performance evaluations so that the considerable overhead of simulations or measurements can...
Abstract. We present a model of object-oriented and component-based refinement. For object-orientation, the model is class-based and refinement is about correct changes in the stru...
We analyze the concept of focus in speech and the relationship between focus and speech acts for prosodic generation. We determine how the speaker's utterances are influenced...