Software complexity has increased substantially in the last decade. This has made software development teams work faster and under tight budgets. Reusing software can be a way of s...
Paulo Gomes, Francisco C. Pereira, Paulo Paiva, Nu...
The queueing Petri net (QPN) paradigm provides a number of benefits over conventional modeling paradigms such as queueing networks and generalized stochastic Petri nets. Using qu...
In order to obtain efficiency, current practice in distributed software systems design often suffers from a lack of ion. An object-oriented design technique based on UML notations...
Model Driven Development and Use Case Driven Development methodologies have inspired the proposal of a variety of software engineering approaches that synthesize statebased models...
The commonly used flaw hypothesis model (FHM) for performing penetration tests provides only limited, highlevel guidance for the derivation of actual penetration attempts. In thi...