A loose semantics for graph transformation rules which has been developed recently is used in this paper for the compositional verification of specifications. The main conceptual t...
Most programs currently written by humans are object-oriented ones. Two of the greatest benefits of object oriented programming are the separation of interface from implementation,...
We present a framework in which different notions of security can be defined in a uniform and modular way. Each definition of security is formalized as a security predicate by ass...
UML's current definition of the role concept comes with many problems, not the least being that it is difficult to understand and communicate. This paper proposes a revised UM...
Abstract. The notion of session is fundamental in service oriented applications, as it separates interactions between different instances of the same service, and it groups togethe...