Abstract. Refinement concepts, such as procedural and data refinement, are among the most important ideas of software engineering. In this paper, we investigate the idea of design ...
A software system interacts with third-party libraries through various APIs. Insufficient documentation and constant refactorings of third-party libraries make API library reuse ...
Tao Xie, Mithun Acharya, Suresh Thummalapenta, Kun...
The use of user specific virtual machines (VMs) in Grid and Cloud computing reduces the administration overhead associated with manually installing required software for every user...
Roland Schwarzkopf, Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallen...
Modern multiuser software systems have adopted RoleBased Access Control (RBAC) for authorization management. This paper presents a formal model for RBAC policy validation and a st...
Marco Pistoia, Stephen J. Fink, Robert J. Flynn, E...
The Mondex Electronic Purse system [18] is an outstanding example of formal refinement techniques applied to a genuine industrial scale application, and notably, was the first ve...
Richard Banach, Michael Poppleton, Czeslaw Jeske, ...