The information security community has long debated the exact definition of the term `security'. Even if we focus on the more modest notion of confidentiality the precise def...
Abstract—Functional flow block diagrams (FFBDs) are a traditional tool of systems engineering and remain popular in some systems engineering domains. However, their lack of form...
Allan I. McInnes, Brandon K. Eames, Russell J. Gro...
—The synchronous model of computation together with a suitable execution platform facilitates system-level timing predictability. This paper introduces an algebraic framework for...
Michael Mendler, Reinhard von Hanxleden, Claus Tra...
We show that the so-called ‘Petri nets are monoids’ approach initiated by Meseguer and Montanari can be extended from ordinary place/transition Petri nets to contextual nets by...
Abstract. Service-oriented computing has emerged as a new programming paradigm that aims at implementing software applications which can be used through a network via the exchange ...