System configuration management is difficult because systems evolve in an undisciplined way: packages are upgraded, configuration files are edited, and so on. The management of ex...
Abstract. Refinement plays a crucial role in "top-down" styles of verification, such as the refinement calculus, but for probabilistic systems proof of refinement is a pa...
Product line engineering (PLE) is one of the recent and effective reuse approaches, and it consists of two processes; framework engineering and application engineering. Framework ...
Abstract. Certificate-based authentication of parties provides a powerful means for verifying claimed identities, since communicating partners do not have to exchange secrets in ad...
Matthias Enzmann, Elli Giessler, Michael Haisch, B...
Abstract. State space explosion is the hardest challenge to the effective application of model checking methods. We present a new technique for achieving drastic state space reduct...