Availability is a critical issue in modern distributed systems. While many techniques and protocols for preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks have been proposed and deployed ...
Abstract. We present a service-oriented personalization system, set in an educational framework, based on a semantic annotation of courses, given at a knowledge level (what the cou...
Experiments with simulators allow psychologists to better understand the causes of human errors and build models of cognitive processes to be used in Human Reliability Assessment ...
Interacting State Machines (ISMs) are used to model reactive systems and to express and verify their properties. They can be seen both as automata exchanging messages simultaneousl...
This paper describes our experience when applying formal methods in the design of the tourist information system TIP, which presents context-sensitive information to mobile users ...