Numerous cognitive studies have indicated that the form and complexity of route instructions may be as important to human navigators as the overall length of route. Most automated ...
Interacting State Machines (ISMs) are used to model reactive systems and to express and verify their properties. They can be seen both as automata exchanging messages simultaneousl...
Almost thirty years ago a vulnerability assessment of Multics identified significant vulnerabilities, despite the fact that Multics was more secure than other contemporary (and cu...
In this paper, we analyze the use of UML as a starting point to go from design issues to end of production testing of complex embedded systems. The first point is the analysis of ...
Andrea Baldini, Alfredo Benso, Paolo Prinetto, Ser...
Components (in-house or pre-fabricated) are increasingly being used to reduce the cost of software development. Given that these components may not have not been developed with de...