Deduction-based software component retrieval uses preand postconditions as indexes and search keys and an automated theorem prover (ATP) to check whether a component matches. This...
This paper introduces a framework for security-oriented software service composition and evolution. Key building blocks of the framework are a semantic model for specifying the se...
We describe the design of VIP, a graphical front-end to the model checker SPIN. VIP supports a visual formalism, called v-Promela that connects the model checker to modern hierarc...
Abstract. In a trace-based world, the modular speci cation, veri cation, and control of live systems require each module to be receptive that is, each module must be able to meet i...
We discuss some basic techniques for modeling dependence between the random variables that are inputs to a simulation model, with the main emphasis being continuous bivariate dist...