: Function Block Adapters (FBAs) are new modeling elements, responsible for the connection of UML capsules and function blocks of the IEC 61131-3 standard. FBAs contain an interfac...
In this paper we outline a new process model for security engineering. This process model extends object oriented, use case driven software development by the systematic treatment ...
Ruth Breu, Klaus Burger, Michael Hafner, Gerhard P...
The purpose of this paper is to first showcase the concept of an operation schema--a precise form of system-level operation specification--and secondly show how operation schemas e...
Enterprises today wish to manage their IT resources so as to optimize business objectives, such as income, rather than IT metrics, such as response times. Therefore, we introduce ...
Over the past few years, we are experiencing a surge of evolution problems related to legacy object-oriented systems. Object orientation provides means for systems to be well-desi...