This report presents a formal approach to reducing sequences in PEPA components. Performing the described amalgamation procedure we may remove, from the underlying Markov chain, t...
Many of today’s software applications require a high-level of security, defined by a detailed policy and attained via mechanisms such as role-based access control (RBAC), mandat...
Jaime A. Pavlich-Mariscal, Laurent Michel, Steven ...
Condition Data Flow Diagrams (CDFDs) are a formalized notation resulting from the integration of Yourdon Data Flow Diagrams, Petri Nets, and pre-post notation. They are used in th...
The recent trend in software engineering to model-centered methodologies is an excellent opportunity for OCL to become a widely used specification language. If the focus of the de...
Thomas Baar, Dan Chiorean, Alexandre L. Correa, Ma...
This paper proposes a formal verification methodology which is smoothly integrated with component-based system-level design, using a divide and conquer approach. The methodology a...