Web services composition is emerging as a promising technology for the effective automation of businessto-business collaborations. It allows organizations to form alliances by con...
Decomposition is used to manage system complexity, but is problematic for emergent properties such as system safety. Previously, we introduced Indirect Control Path Analysis (ICPA...
Confidentiality-preserving refinement describes a relation between a specification and an implementation that ensures that all confidentiality properties required in the specificat...
Abstract. Since the Internet has become a commodity in both wired and wireless environments, new applications and paradigms have emerged to explore this highly distributed and wide...
Observation is becoming a crucial issue in the engineering of today's systems: the common practice for dealing with their complexity is to encapsulate their subcomponents abs...