The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...
Abstract. An important application of unique object references is safe and efficient message passing in concurrent object-oriented programming. However, to prevent the ill effects...
Security is a very important issue in information processing, especially in open network environments like the Internet. The Common Criteria (CC) is the standard requirements cata...
Monika Vetterling, Guido Wimmel, Alexander K. Wi&s...
Information systems (IS) researchers have made considerable progress on defining and formalizing structured methods to support collaborative development of information systems. Co...
Robert O. Briggs, John D. Murphy, Thomas F. Carlis...
Background: An adequate and expressive ontological representation of biological organisms and their parts requires formal reasoning mechanisms for their relations of physical aggr...