Abstract. Automata-based interface and protocol specifications provide an elegant framework to capture and automatically verify the interactive behavior of component-based software...
The problem this paper addresses is that an architecture formed of software components can contain composition errors (introduced, for instance, as a result of the choice of afram...
In a service-oriented architecture, systems communicate by exchanging messages. In this work, we propose a formal model based on OCL-constrained UML Class diagrams and a methodolo...
We consider the Outsourced Aggregation model, where sensing services outsource their sensor data collection and aggregation tasks to third-party service providers called aggregato...
We study query authentication schemes, algorithmic and cryptographic constructions that provide efficient and secure protocols for verifying the results of queries over structured...