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ICSE
1995
IEEE-ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Deriving Specifications from Requirements: An Example
A requirement is a desired relationship among phenomena of the environment of a system, to be brought about by the hardware/software machine that will be constructed and installed...
Michael Jackson, Pamela Zave
EUROMICRO
1997
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
The Harpoon security system for helper programs on a Pocket Companion
In this paper we present a security framework for executing foreign programs, called helpers, on a Pocket Companion: a wireless hand-held computer. A helper program as proposed is...
Gerard J. M. Smit, Paul J. M. Havinga, Daniël...
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
15 years 9 months ago
A Model and a Design Approach to Building QoS Adaptive Systems
The paper introduces a system model called the probabilistic asynchronous model which characterises the context in which many practical and the Internet-based applications are bui...
Paul D. Ezhilchelvan, Santosh K. Shrivastava
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CCS
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A framework for concrete reputation-systems with applications to history-based access control
In a reputation-based trust-management system, agents maintain information about the past behaviour of other agents. This information is used to guide future trust-based decisions...
Karl Krukow, Mogens Nielsen, Vladimiro Sassone
ARGMAS
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
An Argumentation-Based Approach for Practical Reasoning
We build on recent work on argumentation frameworks for generating desires and plans. We provide a rich instantiDung's abstract argumentation framework for (i) generating con...
Iyad Rahwan, Leila Amgoud