Secure, fault-tolerant distributed systems are difficult to build, to validate, and to operate. Conservative design for such systems dictates that their security and fault toleran...
The paper introduces a method to model embedded dependability-critical systems as AND-composition of Guarded Statecharts which are special UMLstatecharts. With Guarded Statecharts...
—Assurance Based Development (ABD) is a novel approach to the synergistic construction of critical software systems and their assurance arguments. In ABD, the need for assurance ...
In future, the decreasing feature size and the reduced power supply will make it much more difficult to built reliable microprocessors. Economic pressure will most likely result in...
We design and study νObj, a calculus and dependent type system for objects and classes which can have types as members. Type can be aliases, abstract types, or new types. The type...