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2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Achieving Principled Assuredly Trustworthy Composable Systems and Networks
Huge challenges exist with systems and networks that must dependably satisfy stringent requirements for security, reliability, and other attributes of trustworthiness. Drawing on ...
Peter G. Neumann
FTDCS
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Dynamic Component Composition for Functionality Adaptation in Pervasive Environments
With the increasing prevalence of mobile devices, computing is being carried out on devices with varied resource constraints and is afflicted by constant changes in run-time conte...
Nalini Moti Belaramani, Cho-Li Wang, Francis C. M....
WORDS
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Framework for Scalable Analysis and Design of System-wide Graceful Degradation in Distributed Embedded Systems
We present a framework that will enable scalable analysis and design of graceful degradation in distributed embedded systems. We define graceful degradation in terms of utility. A...
Charles P. Shelton, Philip Koopman, William Nace
CAISE
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering: A Case Study in E-government
This paper presents a requirements engineering framework based on the notions of Actor, Goal, and Intentional Dependency, and applies it to a case study in the field of Informatio...
Paolo Donzelli, Paolo Bresciani
ER
2003
Springer
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REF: A Practical Agent-Based Requirement Engineering Framework
Abstract. Requirements Engineering techniques, based on the fundamental notions of agency, i.e., Agent, Goal, and Intentional Dependency, have been recognized as having the potenti...
Paolo Bresciani, Paolo Donzelli