—One of the key challenges in modern real-time embedded systems is safe composition of different software components. Formal verification techniques provide the means for design...
A major difficulty of heterogeneous process migration is how to collect advanced dynamic data-structures, transform them into machine independent form, and restor them appropriate...
Complex Semantic Web (SW) services may have intricate data state, autonomous process behavior and concurrent interactions. The design of such SW service systems requires precise a...
Public-key infrastructures are a prerequisite for security in distributed systems and for reliable electronic commerce. It is their goal to provide the authenticity of public keys...
Complex and long-lived software need to be upgraded at runtime. Replacing a software component with a newer version is the basic evolution operation that has to be supported. It i...