We present a semantics for fault tree analysis, a technique used for the analysis of safety critical systems, in the real-time interval logic Duration Calculus with Liveness and sh...
Abstract. We consider the problem of developing an abstract metamodel of access control in terms of which policies for protecting a principal's private information may be spec...
Abstract. The classical work on test case generation and formal methods focuses either on algebraic or model-based specifications. In this paper we propose an approach to derive t...
: The situational method engineering (SME) literature is surveyed and a synoptic evaluation presented in the context of formalizing and regularizing the conceptual framework and un...
Abstract. Over the past years, a number of increasingly expressive languages for modelling constraint and optimisation problems have evolved. In developing a strategy to ease the c...