Access control is central to security in computer systems. Over the years, there have been many efforts to explain and to improve access control, sometimes with logical ideas and t...
Virtual Corporations as well as traditional companies need a planning and control system in order to guarantee the organization’s competitiveness in markets. This paper outlines...
This paper addresses the need for systematic verification of timing properties of real-time prototypes, which consist of timing constraints that must be satisfied at any given tim...
We develop new methods to statically bound the resources needed for the execution of systems of concurrent, interactive threads. Our study is concerned with a synchronous model of ...
State explosion is a fundamental problem in the analysis and synthesis of discrete event systems. Continuous Petri nets can be seen as a relaxation of discrete models allowing more...