In defining large, complex access control policies, one would like to compose sub-policies, perhaps authored by different organizations, into a single global policy. Existing po...
Predicate dispatch is an object-oriented (OO) language mechanism for determining the method implementation to be invoked upon a message send. With predicate dispatch, each method ...
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) are widely used as device controllers for assembly lines, chemical processes, or power plants. Sequential Function Charts (SFC) form one of the...
Nanette Bauer, Ralf Huuck, Ben Lukoschus, Sebastia...
Software reuse has been demonstrated to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve software quality. The research that has addressed this problem has concentrated on code cr...
Letha H. Etzkorn, Carl G. Davis, Lisa L. Bowen, Ja...
We present an analysis to automatically determine if a program represents a continuous function, or equivalently, if infinitesimal changes to its inputs can only cause infinitesim...